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Tellabs

Founders Michael Birck

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$66M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.15
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 4
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Cloud Computing
  • Manufacturing
  • Internet
  • Connectivity Products
Summary

In 1974 was created Tellabs, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Dallas.

The typical startup value when the investment from Tellabs is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Tellabs performs on 28 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2001. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2001. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 9-10 participants. Despite the Tellabs, startups are often financed by Star Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Delta Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TeleSoft Partners, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Juniper Networks. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TeleSoft Partners, Sofinnova Investments, Enterprise Partners.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Network Hardware. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Calient Technologies, VxTel For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Turin Networks

Connectivity Products
Fiberoptic Equipment
Internet
Telecommunications
Wireless
$52M11 May 2007 California, United States

Agility Communications

Connectivity Products
Laser
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
$83M24 Sep 2001 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Calient Technologies

Cloud Computing
Consumer Electronics
Data Center
Electronics
Manufacturing
Software
Telecommunications
$195M08 Jan 2001 California, United States

Calient Technologies

Cloud Computing
Consumer Electronics
Data Center
Electronics
Manufacturing
Software
Telecommunications
$50M23 May 2000 California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 66M
Rounds per year 0.15
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Turin Networks

Connectivity Products
Fiberoptic Equipment
Internet
Telecommunications
Wireless
$52M11 May 2007 California, United States

Agility Communications

Connectivity Products
Laser
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
$83M24 Sep 2001 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Calient Technologies

Cloud Computing
Consumer Electronics
Data Center
Electronics
Manufacturing
Software
Telecommunications
$195M08 Jan 2001 California, United States

Calient Technologies

Cloud Computing
Consumer Electronics
Data Center
Electronics
Manufacturing
Software
Telecommunications
$50M23 May 2000 California, United States
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