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Putnam Investments

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Total investments 21
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$147M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 0.24
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 5
Key employees 30
Stages of investment
Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Web Development
  • Network Hardware
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Web Development
$2M16 Oct 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Celox Networks

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Telecommunications
$80M16 Jul 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Web Development
$4M11 Jun 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Hyperchip

Internet
Network Hardware
$65M01 Sep 2000 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

E-Commerce
Infrastructure
Internet
$100M25 Jul 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

StreamSearch.LIVE

Audio
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video
$20M07 Mar 2000 Tampa, Florida, United States

e-StudioLive

Web Development
$8M01 Feb 2000 Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 21
Average round size 147M
Rounds per year 0.24
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Web Development
$2M16 Oct 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Celox Networks

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Telecommunications
$80M16 Jul 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Web Development
$4M11 Jun 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Hyperchip

Internet
Network Hardware
$65M01 Sep 2000 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

E-Commerce
Infrastructure
Internet
$100M25 Jul 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

StreamSearch.LIVE

Audio
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video
$20M07 Mar 2000 Tampa, Florida, United States

e-StudioLive

Web Development
$8M01 Feb 2000 Massachusetts, United States
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