Thomas Weisel Partners
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33M
52
2.19
11
0.09
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- Areas of investment
Summary
Thomas Weisel Partners is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1998. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the San Francisco.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Thomas Weisel Partners, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Polaris Partners, Mayfield Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Accel, Oak Investment Partners, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Menlo Ventures.
The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Communications Infrastructure, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kozmo.com, Luminous Networks, Tellium. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
The fund was created by Clarke B. Futch, Sandy Miller, Thom Weisel.
The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Comparing to the other companies, this Thomas Weisel Partners performs on 23 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2004. The average startup value when the investment from Thomas Weisel Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 57
- Lead investments
- 11
- Exits
- 29
- Rounds per year
- 2.19
- Follow on index
- 0.09
- Investments by industry
- Software (13)
- Internet (13)
- Information Technology (9)
- E-Commerce (8)
- Manufacturing (8) Show 93 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (56)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 23
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 72M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.91
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.31
- Strategy success index
- 0.80
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fireclick | 14 Mar 2000 | Analytics, Digital Media, Email Marketing | Early Stage Venture | 11M | United States, California, San Diego |
| MIK | 01 May 2017 | Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Winery | Seed | 154K | Shanghai, Xuhui, China |
| Tenor Networks | 01 Aug 2000 | Manufacturing, Developer Tools, Optical Communication | Late Stage Venture | 93M | United States, Massachusetts |
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