Palo Alto Investors

Summary

Palo Alto Investors is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1989. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Palo Alto.

The current fund was established by Will Edwards. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Palo Alto Investors, startups are often financed by Vivo Capital, BioAdvance, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vivo Capital, Third Point Ventures, Technology Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, Vivo Capital, Mobius Venture Capital.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Palo Alto Investors performs on 17 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2005. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Semiconductor, Biotechnology. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Deem, NewLeaf Symbiotics, SkyPilot Networks.