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Rackspace

Founders Dirk Elmendorf Graham Weston Pat Condon Pat Condon Richard Yoo

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$23M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.39
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 5
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Cloud Computing
  • SaaS
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Summary

Rackspace appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1998. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the San Antonio.

The current fund was established by Dirk Elmendorf, Graham Weston, Pat Condon, Pat Condon, Richard Yoo.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Rackspace performs on 28 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Rackspace, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Warburg Pincus, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Scaleworks, Warburg Pincus, Turn/River Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lightspeed Venture Partners, CapitalG, Salil Deshpande.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CrowdStrike, Mailgun, ScaleFT. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Security, Cyber Security. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cloud Technology Partners

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
PaaS
SaaS
Software
31 Aug 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

CrowdStrike

Crowdsourcing
Cyber Security
Network Security
SaaS
$100M13 Jul 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

ScaleFT

Cloud Computing
Electronics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Security
Software
$800K11 May 2015 United States, San Francisco

HelpSocial

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Social Media
18 Aug 2014 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Cloudant

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Software
$12M14 May 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

DataStax

Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Database
Enterprise Software
Software
23 Apr 2010 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 9
Average round size 23M
Rounds per year 0.39
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cloud Technology Partners

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
PaaS
SaaS
Software
31 Aug 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

CrowdStrike

Crowdsourcing
Cyber Security
Network Security
SaaS
$100M13 Jul 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

ScaleFT

Cloud Computing
Electronics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Security
Software
$800K11 May 2015 United States, San Francisco

HelpSocial

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Social Media
18 Aug 2014 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Cloudant

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Software
$12M14 May 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

DataStax

Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Database
Enterprise Software
Software
23 Apr 2010 San Jose, California, United States
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