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Synopsys

Founders Aart Geus Steven Sharp

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 6
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Semiconductor
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Electronics
  • Manufacturing
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Efabless

Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Communities
Crowdsourcing
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Open Source
Semiconductor
$6M10 Oct 2023 San Jose, California, United States

OXi Technology

Biotechnology
Hardware
Sensor
$3M28 Mar 2017 Shanghai, China

Arteris IP

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Intellectual Property
Semiconductor
Software
$7M23 May 2008 California, United States

Arteris IP

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Intellectual Property
Semiconductor
Software
$8M19 Jun 2007 California, United States

Inovys

Hardware
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Software
$16M18 Feb 2004 Cupertino, California, United States

Tharas Systems

Computer
Hardware
Simulation
$4M17 Dec 2003 San Jose, California, United States

Pixim

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Video
$16M30 Oct 2001 Mountain View, California, United States

Blackstone Technology Group

Infrastructure
Product Design
Software
$12M06 Jun 2001 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Chameleon Systems

Network Hardware
Semiconductor
$47M05 Feb 2001 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 23
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Efabless

Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Communities
Crowdsourcing
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Open Source
Semiconductor
$6M10 Oct 2023 San Jose, California, United States

OXi Technology

Biotechnology
Hardware
Sensor
$3M28 Mar 2017 Shanghai, China

Arteris IP

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Intellectual Property
Semiconductor
Software
$7M23 May 2008 California, United States

Arteris IP

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Intellectual Property
Semiconductor
Software
$8M19 Jun 2007 California, United States

Inovys

Hardware
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Software
$16M18 Feb 2004 Cupertino, California, United States

Tharas Systems

Computer
Hardware
Simulation
$4M17 Dec 2003 San Jose, California, United States

Pixim

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Video
$16M30 Oct 2001 Mountain View, California, United States

Blackstone Technology Group

Infrastructure
Product Design
Software
$12M06 Jun 2001 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Chameleon Systems

Network Hardware
Semiconductor
$47M05 Feb 2001 San Jose, California, United States
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