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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.50
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Hardware
  • Web Hosting
  • Data Storage
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
Summary

Signal Lake is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Westport. The company was established in North America in United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2003. The typical startup value when the investment from Signal Lake is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Signal Lake performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Signal Lake, startups are often financed by Yasuda Enterprise Development, New Venture Partners, Japan Asia Investment. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Venture Partners, Yasuda Enterprise Development, Newton Technology Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Venture Partners, Yasuda Enterprise Development, Nimes Capital.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Network Security, Hardware. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline InPhase Technologies, Cradle Technologies, REMOTV

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

REMOTV

File Sharing
Mobile
Music
Photography
Social Media
Video
Video Streaming
$1M01 Sep 2008 New Haven, Connecticut, United States

InPhase Technologies

Data Storage
Hardware
Information Technology
Web Hosting
$8M01 Mar 2004 Colorado, United States

InPhase Technologies

Data Storage
Hardware
Information Technology
Web Hosting
$6M04 Dec 2002 Colorado, United States

InPhase Technologies

Data Storage
Hardware
Information Technology
Web Hosting
30 Jan 2001 Colorado, United States

Cradle Technologies

Hardware
Hospital
Manufacturing
Network Security
Video
$20M29 Jan 2001 Mountain View, California, United States

Paragon Networks International

Internet
Manufacturing
Network Hardware
$8M15 Mar 2000 Connecticut, United States

Silicon Wave

Electronics
Telecommunications
Wireless
$35M27 Jan 2000 San Diego, California, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 0.50
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

REMOTV

File Sharing
Mobile
Music
Photography
Social Media
Video
Video Streaming
$1M01 Sep 2008 New Haven, Connecticut, United States

InPhase Technologies

Data Storage
Hardware
Information Technology
Web Hosting
$8M01 Mar 2004 Colorado, United States

InPhase Technologies

Data Storage
Hardware
Information Technology
Web Hosting
$6M04 Dec 2002 Colorado, United States

InPhase Technologies

Data Storage
Hardware
Information Technology
Web Hosting
30 Jan 2001 Colorado, United States

Cradle Technologies

Hardware
Hospital
Manufacturing
Network Security
Video
$20M29 Jan 2001 Mountain View, California, United States

Paragon Networks International

Internet
Manufacturing
Network Hardware
$8M15 Mar 2000 Connecticut, United States

Silicon Wave

Electronics
Telecommunications
Wireless
$35M27 Jan 2000 San Diego, California, United States
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