Sigma Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Campbell, United States

Total investments

353

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

127

Rounds per year

8.82

Lead investments

71

Follow on index

0.64

Exits

79

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMarketingComputer

Summary

Sigma Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1984. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston.

The average startup value when the investment from Sigma Partners is 50-100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Sigma Partners performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The high activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

For fund there is a 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. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ChinaCache, DocuSign, Octane Software

The overall number of key employees were 3.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Sigma Partners, startups are often financed by Kepha Partners, Ignition Partners, Highland Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kodiak Venture Partners, Ignition Partners, HLM Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Jackson Square Ventures, JAFCO Asia.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 500000000
Fund raised date
2007-09-25

Analytics

Total investments
353
Lead investments
71
Exits
79
Rounds per year
8.82
Follow on index
0.64
Investments by industry
  • Software (215)
  • Enterprise Software (132)
  • Information Technology (76)
  • SaaS (57)
  • Manufacturing (36)
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Investments by region
  • United States (340)
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • Canada (3)
  • China (1)
  • India (1)
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Peak activity year
2008
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
150M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
3.52
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
doxo 16 Mar 2022 E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech, Cyber Security Late Stage Venture 18M United States, Washington, Seattle
SDL Enterprise Technologies 21 Mar 2000 Software, Information Technology, Information Services, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications Early Stage Venture 15M United States, Massachusetts

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