Texas Instruments

Summary

Texas Instruments is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1930. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Dallas. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Texas Instruments, startups are often financed by Venrock, Trellis Partners, Sony. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Granite Ventures, Sony, Highland Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Granite Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Wheatley Partners.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Texas Instruments is 50-100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2006. This Texas Instruments works on 32 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2001. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Media, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cymbet, Calxeda, Speakeasy The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.