Red Hat

Summary

In 1993 was created Red Hat, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Raleigh. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Red Hat, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Volition Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Rackspace, MongoDB, Sendmail. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Red Hat works on 12 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Red Hat is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.