Total investments

17

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.41

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

10

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityEnterprise ApplicationsService IndustryProfessional Networking

Summary

Symantec is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1982. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Mountain View. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Gary Hendrix. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Network Security. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LifeLock, Mocana, ClearPoint Metrics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Symantec, startups are often financed by Greylock Partners, Shasta Ventures, Polaris Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are StarVest Partners, Greylock Partners, Southern Cross Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StarVest Partners, Atlas Venture, .406 Ventures.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Opposing the other organizations, this Symantec works on 30 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2012.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
7
Exits
10
Rounds per year
0.41
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Security (11)
  • Software (11)
  • Cyber Security (5)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Mobile (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
351M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
5.38
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Virtela Technology Services 15 Oct 2001 Mobile, Security, Telecommunications, IT Management Early Stage Venture 35M United States, Colorado
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