Rackspace
Active
9
23M
8
0.39
0.11
5
- Areas of investment
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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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 9
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 0.39
- Follow on index
- 0.11
- Investments by industry
- Software (7)
- Enterprise Software (4)
- Cloud Computing (4)
- SaaS (3)
- Email (2) Show 19 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (9)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 915M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.67
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 10.39
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrowdStrike | 13 Jul 2015 | SaaS, Cyber Security, Network Security, Crowdsourcing | Late Stage Venture | 100M | United States, California, Sunnyvale |
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