Western Digital Capital
31
24M
26
1.29
5
0.16
10
- Areas of investment
Summary
The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Irvine. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Western Digital Capital seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Western Digital Capital, startups are often financed by Norwest Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital, Sigma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Samsung Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Qualcomm Ventures, TLV Partners, Magma Venture Partners.
The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Western Digital Capital performs on 6 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.
The overall number of key employees were 2.
The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cloud Data Services, Data Center. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kaminario, Tegile Systems, Skyera. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 31
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 1.29
- Follow on index
- 0.16
- Investments by industry
- Software (11)
- Information Technology (10)
- Data Storage (10)
- Cloud Storage (7)
- Big Data (6) Show 36 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (26)
- Israel (1)
- Belgium (1)
- Germany (1)
- France (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 149M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.87
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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