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Western Digital

Founders Jacob Braun

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Total investments 8
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$65M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.15
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Data Storage
  • Cloud Data Services
  • Big Data
  • Hardware
  • Computer
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Deep Vision

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Big Data
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
$35M15 Sep 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Esperanto Technologies

Computer
Energy Efficiency
$58M01 Nov 2018 Mountain View, California, United States

Kona Medical

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$30M30 May 2012 Bellevue, Washington, United States
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AI edge hardware startup Deep Vision nabs $35M

– Deep Vision, a company developing an AI accelerator chip and software suite for edge computing workloads, announced that it closed a $35 million series B financing round led by Tiger Global, with participation from Exfinity Venture Partners, Silicon Motion, and Western Digital.
– According to CEO Ravi Annavajjhala, the proceeds will be put toward product development as Deep Vision looks to ramp up manufacturing of its hardware for early customers.
– Edge computing, which puts computing and storage resources at the location where data is produced, is thriving as industries including manufacturing, health care, and energy increasingly embrace it. Grand View Research predicts that the global edge computing market will reach $6.29 billion in value in 2021, up from $4.68 billion in 2020.

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Total investments 8
Average round size 65M
Rounds per year 0.15
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Deep Vision

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Big Data
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
$35M15 Sep 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Esperanto Technologies

Computer
Energy Efficiency
$58M01 Nov 2018 Mountain View, California, United States

Kona Medical

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$30M30 May 2012 Bellevue, Washington, United States
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