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Western Digital Capital

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 1.29
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 10
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Data Storage
  • Cloud Storage
  • Big Data
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ethernovia

Autonomous Vehicles
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Network Hardware
Software
$64M15 May 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Deep Vision

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$34M14 Sep 2021 Los Altos, California, United States

Wasabi Technologies

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Storage
Database
Information Technology
$25M20 May 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Iridia

Data Storage
Electronics
Semiconductor
$24M16 Mar 2021 Carlsbad, California, United States

NGD Systems

Big Data
Cloud Storage
Computer
Data Storage
Flash Storage
$20M05 Feb 2020 Irvine, California, United States

Weka.IO

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Storage
Data Center
Data Storage
Financial Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$31M14 May 2019 California, United States

Komprise

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Data Storage
Information Technology
Internet
SaaS
Software
$24M04 Feb 2019 California, United States

Cloud Data Services
Data Storage
Product Design
$30M30 Jan 2019 Israel, North District, Israel

Weka.IO

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Storage
Data Center
Data Storage
Financial Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$31M17 Jan 2019 California, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 1.29
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ethernovia

Autonomous Vehicles
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Network Hardware
Software
$64M15 May 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Deep Vision

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$34M14 Sep 2021 Los Altos, California, United States

Wasabi Technologies

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Storage
Database
Information Technology
$25M20 May 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Iridia

Data Storage
Electronics
Semiconductor
$24M16 Mar 2021 Carlsbad, California, United States

NGD Systems

Big Data
Cloud Storage
Computer
Data Storage
Flash Storage
$20M05 Feb 2020 Irvine, California, United States

Weka.IO

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Storage
Data Center
Data Storage
Financial Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$31M14 May 2019 California, United States

Komprise

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Data Storage
Information Technology
Internet
SaaS
Software
$24M04 Feb 2019 California, United States

Cloud Data Services
Data Storage
Product Design
$30M30 Jan 2019 Israel, North District, Israel

Weka.IO

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Storage
Data Center
Data Storage
Financial Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$31M17 Jan 2019 California, United States
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