Western Digital Capital
CVC
Active
San Jose, United States
9
65M
8
0.17
0.11
2
- Areas of investment
Summary
Western Digital is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1970. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Jose. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Marketplace, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Qumulo, Tegile Systems, eHitex. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.
We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.
The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Western Digital works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 participants. Despite the Western Digital, startups are often financed by Madrona Venture Group, Kleiner Perkins, Valhalla Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Valhalla Partners, Solectron Technology Inc., Service Corp International. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Morningside Group, Western Digital Capital, Vertex Ventures HC.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 9
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 0.17
- Follow on index
- 0.11
- Investments by industry
- Data Storage (4)
- Cloud Data Services (3)
- Big Data (2)
- Hardware (2)
- Computer (2) Show 19 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (6)
- Israel (2)
- Germany (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 140M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Pliops | 24 Feb 2021 | Cloud Data Services, Product Design, Data Storage | Late Stage Venture | 65M | North District, Israel, Israel |
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