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Shaw Ventures

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$44M
Portfolio companies 6
Lead investments 0
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Software
  • Network Hardware
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Broadcasting
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Plume Design

Network Hardware
SaaS
Smart Home
Wireless
$21M01 Sep 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

Benu Networks

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Network Hardware
Network Security
Software
Virtualization
$27M27 Jan 2015 Massachusetts, United States

SHOP.CA

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
Shopping
$31M01 May 2014 Ontario

Terawave Communications

Communications Infrastructure
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$73M11 Jan 2001 Hayward, California, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 44M
Peak activity year 2001
Lead investments 0
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Plume Design

Network Hardware
SaaS
Smart Home
Wireless
$21M01 Sep 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

Benu Networks

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Network Hardware
Network Security
Software
Virtualization
$27M27 Jan 2015 Massachusetts, United States

SHOP.CA

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
Shopping
$31M01 May 2014 Ontario

Terawave Communications

Communications Infrastructure
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$73M11 Jan 2001 Hayward, California, United States
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