Sun Microsystems
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- Areas of investment
Summary
Sun Microsystems appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1982. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Santa Clara.
The high activity for fund was in 2000. This Sun Microsystems works on 37 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from Sun Microsystems the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007.
The current fund was established by Bill Joy, Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla.
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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mellanox Technologies, 3PAR, FastForward Networks. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Video, Real Time. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Sun Microsystems, startups are often financed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), RBC Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Qualcomm Ventures, Next47. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Flybridge Capital Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 40
- Lead investments
- 8
- Exits
- 26
- Rounds per year
- 1.00
- Follow on index
- 0.10
- Investments by industry
- Software (24)
- Internet (9)
- Telecommunications (7)
- Mobile (4)
- Wireless (4) Show 54 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (36)
- France (1)
- Canada (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 22
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 149M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.88
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 4.83
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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