TransCosmos

Total investments

73

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

61

Rounds per year

2.81

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

27

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyConsumerMarketplaceSocial MediaVideoAdvertisingDigital Media

Summary

TransCosmos is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Mountain View.

The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from TransCosmos is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Comparing to the other companies, this TransCosmos performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Broadcasting, E-Commerce. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coremetrics, Equator Technologies, Inc., AsiaContent.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the TransCosmos, startups are often financed by Accel, GREE Ventures, Highland Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mayfield Fund, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VantagePoint Capital Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Mayfield Fund.

The fund was created by James Geddes. The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
73
Lead investments
15
Exits
27
Rounds per year
2.81
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Internet (20)
  • Advertising (16)
  • E-Commerce (15)
  • Software (12)
  • Video (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (54)
  • China (4)
  • Singapore (5)
  • Canada (1)
  • Thailand (1)
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Peak activity year
2000

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
13M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.71

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Acadio 09 Nov 1999 Seed 3M United States, Washington, Seattle
Berrybenka 20 Nov 2013 E-Commerce, Fashion Early Stage Venture 5M Jakarta Raya, Jakarta, Indonesia

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