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Verifone

Founders Bill Melton

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 2
Rounds per year 0.07
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 2
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Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Enterprise Software
  • Hardware
  • Mobile Payments
  • Telecommunications
Summary

Verifone appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1981. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Jose.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Verifone, startups are often financed by Venrock, RRE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, RRE Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, RRE Ventures.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Trunkbow, Semtek Innovative Solutions We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Telecommunications. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2010. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Verifone works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Mobile
30 Sep 2009 San Diego, California, United States

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Mobile
$17M18 Nov 2007 San Diego, California, United States

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Total investments 3
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.07
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Mobile
30 Sep 2009 San Diego, California, United States

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Mobile
$17M18 Nov 2007 San Diego, California, United States
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