Wasserstein & Co.
26
9M
20
0.74
4
0.23
16
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Wasserstein & Co. is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Wasserstein & Co., startups are often financed by Morgenthaler Ventures, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Newlight Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Newlight Management, Needham Capital Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Newlight Management, Bay Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners.
The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. This Wasserstein & Co. works on 31 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2002. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The overall number of key employees were 2.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chip Express, eMotion, INFICON. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Semiconductor, Hardware. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 26
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 16
- Rounds per year
- 0.74
- Follow on index
- 0.23
- Investments by industry
- Manufacturing (16)
- Semiconductor (8)
- Telecommunications (5)
- Electronics (4)
- Electrical Distribution (4) Show 39 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (23)
- Switzerland (1)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2002
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 37
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 32M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.62
- Avg. company exit year
- 14
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.94
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaze Network Products | 13 Nov 2000 | Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Optical Communication | Early Stage Venture | 40M | United States, California |
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