Oracle

Summary

In 1977 was created Oracle, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Redwood Shores.

The fund was created by Bob Miner, Ed Oates, Larry Ellison, Mark Trefgarne, Seth Van Sickel. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Oracle, startups are often financed by Worldview Technology Partners, Sigma Partners, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hikari Tsushin Group, Accel, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Accel, Sigma Partners, ONSET Ventures.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Oracle works on 20 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Oracle the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline WebEx, 3PAR, Proteus Digital Health The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Biotechnology.