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Vulcan

Founders Paul Allen

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$34M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 0.84
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 10
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Retail
  • E-Commerce
  • Software
Summary

In 2014 was created Vulcan, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Portsmouth. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Vulcan, startups are often financed by Zone Ventures, Weston Presidio Capital, Vulcan Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oak Investment Partners, Zone Ventures, Highland Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak Investment Partners, Zone Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).

The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Vulcan is 100-500 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2004. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Broadband Access Systems, iMotors, Rioport. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Clyde

E-Commerce
Financial Services
Information Technology
Insurance
$25M19 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

ScaleFactor

Accounting
Business Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
$60M08 Aug 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

Alpha

B2B
Bitcoin
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
FinTech
$1M18 Jan 2018 California, United States

PortalPlayer

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Software
$22M05 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Caspian Networks

Information Technology
Internet
Network Security
Service Industry
$85M06 Dec 2000 San Jose, California, United States

Rioport

Apps
Delivery
Digital Media
Internet
Music
TV
Video
$31M24 Jul 2000 San Jose, California, United States

Imandi

Direct Marketing
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketplace
$20M15 Jun 2000 Washington, United States

Fantasma Networks

Information Technology
Internet Radio
Wireless
$11M02 May 2000 Palo Alto, California, United States

Mercata

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Internet
$40M07 Mar 2000 Bellevue, Washington, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 34M
Rounds per year 0.84
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Clyde

E-Commerce
Financial Services
Information Technology
Insurance
$25M19 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

ScaleFactor

Accounting
Business Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
$60M08 Aug 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

Alpha

B2B
Bitcoin
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
FinTech
$1M18 Jan 2018 California, United States

PortalPlayer

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Software
$22M05 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Caspian Networks

Information Technology
Internet
Network Security
Service Industry
$85M06 Dec 2000 San Jose, California, United States

Rioport

Apps
Delivery
Digital Media
Internet
Music
TV
Video
$31M24 Jul 2000 San Jose, California, United States

Imandi

Direct Marketing
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketplace
$20M15 Jun 2000 Washington, United States

Fantasma Networks

Information Technology
Internet Radio
Wireless
$11M02 May 2000 Palo Alto, California, United States

Mercata

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Internet
$40M07 Mar 2000 Bellevue, Washington, United States
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