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Sprint

Founders Cleyson L. Brown Jacob Brown

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.10
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 5
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Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Mobile Devices
  • Telecommunications
  • Health Care
  • Music
Summary

Sprint appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1899. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Overland Park.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Clearwire, EyeVerify, IPWireless Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Security, Fraud Detection.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Sprint works on 27 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Sprint, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, Time Warner, Comcast. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Time Warner, Techstars, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Time Warner, Techstars, Sprint Accelerator.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Akibah Health

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
01 Mar 2017 San Jose, California, United States

EyeVerify

Biometrics
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Mobile
Security
$6M20 Aug 2014 Kansas City, Kansas, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 0.10
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Akibah Health

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
01 Mar 2017 San Jose, California, United States

EyeVerify

Biometrics
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Mobile
Security
$6M20 Aug 2014 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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