Synopsys

Status

Active

Total investments

23

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

0.62

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

6

Areas of investment
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingHardwareSemiconductorElectronicsIntellectual PropertyElectronic Design Automation (EDA)Network Hardware

Summary

In 1986 was created Synopsys, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Mountain View. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Synopsys the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Synopsys works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The current fund was established by Aart Geus, Steven Sharp.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Electronics, Manufacturing. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Adaptive Silicon, Blackstone Technology Group, Tharas Systems. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Synopsys, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, Convergence Partners, Ventech. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, TVM Capital, Mohr Davidow Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tallwood Venture Capital, Mayfield Fund, TVM Capital.

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Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
1
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.62
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Semiconductor (13)
  • Hardware (11)
  • Software (10)
  • Electronics (5)
  • Manufacturing (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (21)
  • China (1)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
28M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
2.08

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arteris IP 23 May 2008 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Semiconductor, Intellectual Property Late Stage Venture 7M United States, California
Efabless 10 Oct 2023 Communities, Hardware, Semiconductor, Electronics, Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Internet of Things, Open Source, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Crowdsourcing Early Stage Venture 6M United States, California, San Jose
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