Signal Lake

Total investments

12

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.50

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetInformation TechnologyHospitalManufacturingNetwork SecurityHardwareVideoTelecommunicationsWeb HostingData Storage

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.50
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Hardware (6)
  • Web Hosting (4)
  • Data Storage (4)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Manufacturing (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
Peak activity year
2000

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
56M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
InPhase Technologies 01 Mar 2004 Information Technology, Hardware, Web Hosting, Data Storage Early Stage Venture 8M United States, Colorado

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