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VeriSign

Founders David Cowan James Bidzos

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.54
Lead investments 3
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 9
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Analytics
  • Network Security
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bigstep

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Infrastructure
Software
$2M15 Mar 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Kollective Technology

Content Delivery Network
Enterprise Software
Software
Video
Video on Demand
$16M28 Oct 2002 Bend, Oregon, United States

Nominum

Internet
Network Security
Software
$10M06 May 2002 Redwood City, California, United States

Quova

Advertising
Analytics
Business Development
$21M02 Jan 2002 Mountain View, California, United States

Air2Web

CRM
Information Technology
Marketing
Mobile
$25M10 Oct 2001 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Quova

Advertising
Analytics
Business Development
$21M13 Mar 2001 Mountain View, California, United States

Media and Entertainment
TV
TV Production
$28M28 Nov 2000 Virginia, United States

Enterprise Software
Software
$1M01 Sep 2000 Virginia, United States

Obongo

E-Commerce
Finance
Internet
Security
$20M18 Jan 2000 Redwood City, California, United States

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Total investments 14
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 0.54
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bigstep

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Infrastructure
Software
$2M15 Mar 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Kollective Technology

Content Delivery Network
Enterprise Software
Software
Video
Video on Demand
$16M28 Oct 2002 Bend, Oregon, United States

Nominum

Internet
Network Security
Software
$10M06 May 2002 Redwood City, California, United States

Quova

Advertising
Analytics
Business Development
$21M02 Jan 2002 Mountain View, California, United States

Air2Web

CRM
Information Technology
Marketing
Mobile
$25M10 Oct 2001 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Quova

Advertising
Analytics
Business Development
$21M13 Mar 2001 Mountain View, California, United States

Media and Entertainment
TV
TV Production
$28M28 Nov 2000 Virginia, United States

Enterprise Software
Software
$1M01 Sep 2000 Virginia, United States

Obongo

E-Commerce
Finance
Internet
Security
$20M18 Jan 2000 Redwood City, California, United States
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