Shaw Ventures
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- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Calgary.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Shaw Ventures, startups are often financed by Spark Capital, Comcast Ventures, Walden International. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Samsung Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, Torstar Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Walden International, Time Warner, Sutter Hill Ventures.
The high activity for fund was in 2001. This Shaw Ventures works on 31 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Benu Networks, Plume Design, SkyStream Networks. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Network Security, Cloud Infrastructure.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 4
- Investments by industry
- Telecommunications (2)
- Software (2)
- Network Hardware (2)
- Content Delivery Network (1)
- Broadcasting (1) Show 16 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (4)
- Canada (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2001
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 17
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 342M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.87
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terawave Communications | 11 Jan 2001 | Telecommunications, Optical Communication, Communications Infrastructure | Late Stage Venture | 73M | United States, California, Hayward |
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