Putnam Investments

Total investments

21

Average round size

147M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

0.24

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Venture
Areas of investment
InfrastructureInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareElectronicsTelecommunicationsNetwork HardwareCommunications InfrastructureWeb Development

Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Boston.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Putnam Investments, startups are often financed by Apex Venture Partners, TechnoCap, Reuters. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Apex Venture Partners, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, Rare Medium. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Apex Venture Partners, Advent International, TechnoCap.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2002. Comparing to the other companies, this Putnam Investments performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

We also calculated 30 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CenterPoint Broadband Technologies, Hyperchip, Celox Networks. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Marketing, Enterprise Software. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
3
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.24
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Internet (10)
  • Software (6)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Web Development (3)
  • Network Hardware (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
241M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
11
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
StreamSearch.LIVE 07 Mar 2000 Internet, Video, Media and Entertainment, Audio Late Stage Venture 20M United States, Florida, Tampa

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