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Thomas Weisel Partners

Founders Clarke B. Futch Sandy Miller Thom Weisel

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Total investments 57
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$33M
Portfolio companies 52
Rounds per year 2.28
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 29
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
  • Manufacturing
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Roxro Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$42M12 Jun 2007 California, United States

FRS

Fitness
Food and Beverage
Health Care
$25M06 Jun 2007 California, United States

TeleSym

Call Center
Mobile
Software
Wireless
$12M26 Sep 2003 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Santur Corporation

Communications Infrastructure
Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
$23M26 Jun 2002 Fremont, California, United States

QuantumShift Communications

Communications Infrastructure
Information Technology
Outsourcing
$32M05 Dec 2001 California, United States

Aligo

Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Mobile
$11M27 Jun 2001 San Francisco, California, United States

AP Engines

Internet
Internet of Things
Telecommunications
$30M04 Jun 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Brand Marketing
CRM
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
Software
$27M22 Jan 2001 Connecticut, United States

Manufacturing
$75M05 Dec 2000 Minnesota, United States

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Total investments 57
Average round size 33M
Rounds per year 2.28
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 29
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Roxro Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$42M12 Jun 2007 California, United States

FRS

Fitness
Food and Beverage
Health Care
$25M06 Jun 2007 California, United States

TeleSym

Call Center
Mobile
Software
Wireless
$12M26 Sep 2003 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Santur Corporation

Communications Infrastructure
Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
$23M26 Jun 2002 Fremont, California, United States

QuantumShift Communications

Communications Infrastructure
Information Technology
Outsourcing
$32M05 Dec 2001 California, United States

Aligo

Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Mobile
$11M27 Jun 2001 San Francisco, California, United States

AP Engines

Internet
Internet of Things
Telecommunications
$30M04 Jun 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Brand Marketing
CRM
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
Software
$27M22 Jan 2001 Connecticut, United States

Manufacturing
$75M05 Dec 2000 Minnesota, United States
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