VeriSign
14
16M
12
0.54
3
0.14
9
- Areas of investment
Summary
VeriSign is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1995. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Bluemont.
This organization was formed by James Bidzos.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the VeriSign, startups are often financed by Fidelity Ventures, iGATE Global Solutions, XML Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Fidelity Ventures, XML Fund, Trinity Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank Capital, Nexus Group, Trident Capital.
The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this VeriSign works on 35 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Air2Web, Quova, Archive. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Network Security, Business Development. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 14
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 9
- Rounds per year
- 0.54
- Follow on index
- 0.14
- Investments by industry
- Software (7)
- Internet (3)
- Information Technology (3)
- Analytics (3)
- Network Security (3) Show 27 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (13)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 12M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.93
- Avg. company exit year
- 9
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.44
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obongo | 18 Jan 2000 | E-Commerce, Internet, Finance, Security | Early Stage Venture | 20M | United States, California, Redwood City |
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