The Challenge Fund

Total investments

32

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

1.14

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

14

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileManufacturingCloud ComputingHardwareSemiconductorTelecommunicationsDatabaseVirtualization

Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
2
Exits
14
Rounds per year
1.14
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Internet (8)
  • Telecommunications (7)
  • Mobile (6)
  • Manufacturing (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (21)
  • Israel (10)
Peak activity year
2000

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
16M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
0.71

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BitBand 24 Mar 2003 Content, Video on Demand, Content Delivery Network Early Stage Venture 9M United States, Arizona, Scottsdale
Cydoor 01 Mar 2000 Software, Advertising Early Stage Venture 6M United States, New York, New York
01 Jan 1999 0
Quarrio Corp. 23 Mar 2015 Analytics, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Natural Language Processing Seed 0 United States, California, Berkeley

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