VMware
Corporate investor
Active
Palo Alto, United States
33
75M
22
1.32
2
0.33
9
- Areas of investment
Summary
VMware appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1998. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Palo Alto.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pivotal, Square, JFrog. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the VMware, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Cisco, True Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cisco, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Dell Technologies Capital, Venrock, Sapphire Ventures.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from VMware is more than 1 billion dollars. This VMware works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2013. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
This organization was formed by Diane Greene, Edouard Bugnion, Edward Wang, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine. The overall number of key employees were 7.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 33
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 9
- Rounds per year
- 1.32
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- Software (17)
- Enterprise Software (14)
- Information Technology (9)
- Cloud Computing (8)
- Information Services (5) Show 44 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (26)
- Israel (5)
- Peak activity year
- 2013
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 346M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.97
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 6.59
- Strategy success index
- 0.20
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