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VMware

Founders Diane Greene Edouard Bugnion Edward Wang Mendel Rosenblum Scott Devine

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Total investments 33
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$75M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 1.32
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 9
Key employees 13

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Cloud Computing
  • Information Services
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Certora

Blockchain
Quality Assurance
Security
$36M17 May 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Certora

Blockchain
Quality Assurance
Security
$7M21 May 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Cellwize

Big Data
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Mobile
Network Security
Telecommunications
$32M09 Nov 2020 Texas, United States

Digital Asset

Blockchain
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Risk Management
Software
$45M04 Feb 2020 New York, New York, United States

Blockchain
Compliance
Computer
Information Technology
Network Security
Privacy
$10M07 May 2019 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Cloudify

Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Data Center Automation
Enterprise Software
IT Infrastructure
$7M13 Dec 2018 Israel, " Israel"}

Blue Medora

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Software
$8M30 Aug 2016 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Pivotal

$653M05 May 2016 -

JFrog

Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Software
Web Development
$50M20 Jan 2016 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Total investments 33
Average round size 75M
Rounds per year 1.32
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Certora

Blockchain
Quality Assurance
Security
$36M17 May 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Certora

Blockchain
Quality Assurance
Security
$7M21 May 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Cellwize

Big Data
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Mobile
Network Security
Telecommunications
$32M09 Nov 2020 Texas, United States

Digital Asset

Blockchain
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Risk Management
Software
$45M04 Feb 2020 New York, New York, United States

Blockchain
Compliance
Computer
Information Technology
Network Security
Privacy
$10M07 May 2019 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Cloudify

Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Data Center Automation
Enterprise Software
IT Infrastructure
$7M13 Dec 2018 Israel, " Israel"}

Blue Medora

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Software
$8M30 Aug 2016 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Pivotal

$653M05 May 2016 -

JFrog

Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Software
Web Development
$50M20 Jan 2016 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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