Spectrum Equity

Summary

Spectrum Equity appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Spectrum Equity, startups are often financed by Goldman Sachs, Greycroft, YankeeTek Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Trinity Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Trinity Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Telecommunications. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight NetScreen Technologies, Cboe Global Markets, Ancestry.

This organization was formed by Brion B. Applegate, William P. Collatos. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Spectrum Equity is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Spectrum Equity works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.