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Pyramid Technology Ventures

Founders Alexander Rhea Marc Cellier

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$28M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.50
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 8
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Internet
  • Manufacturing
  • Software
  • Finance
Summary

In 1999 was created Pyramid Technology Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Paris. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Wireless. For fund there is no 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 Luminous Networks, Ingenio, Sylantro.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Pyramid Technology Ventures performs on 35 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The current fund was established by Alexander Rhea, Marc Cellier. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 partakers. Despite the Pyramid Technology Ventures, startups are often financed by Dynafund Ventures, Benchmark, Tredegar Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vanguard Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vanguard Ventures, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Azure Capital Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Polychromix

Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Wireless
$8M02 Feb 2004 Massachusetts, United States

PentaSafe

Software
$10M14 Jan 2002 Houston, Texas, United States

Blaze Network Products

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$40M13 Nov 2000 California, United States

Ingenio

Apps
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
Internet
Lead Generation
Messaging
Mobile
Software
$42M11 Oct 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

Sylantro

SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$55M01 Oct 2000 California, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 28M
Rounds per year 0.50
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Polychromix

Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Wireless
$8M02 Feb 2004 Massachusetts, United States

PentaSafe

Software
$10M14 Jan 2002 Houston, Texas, United States

Blaze Network Products

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$40M13 Nov 2000 California, United States

Ingenio

Apps
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
Internet
Lead Generation
Messaging
Mobile
Software
$42M11 Oct 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

Sylantro

SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$55M01 Oct 2000 California, United States
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