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Wheatley Partners

Founders Barry Fingerhut Barry Rubenstein Irwin Lieber Jonathan Lieber Seth Lieber

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 44
Rounds per year 1.83
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 23
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Medical
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
Summary

In 1992 was created Wheatley Partners, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Great Neck.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Service Industry, Information Technology. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cepheid, NetVendor, LuxN For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this Wheatley Partners works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Wheatley Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2011.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Wheatley Partners, startups are often financed by OVP Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Credit Suisse First Boston, RRE Ventures, Canaan Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RRE Ventures, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, OVP Venture Partners.

The current fund was established by Barry Fingerhut, Barry Rubenstein, Irwin Lieber, Jonathan Lieber, Seth Lieber. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

eGifter

Bitcoin
E-Commerce
Gift Card
Mobile
Software
$1M11 Dec 2013 New York, United States

Oligomerix

Biotechnology
Ediscovery
Medical
$2M23 Apr 2012 New York, United States

Searchandise Commerce

Advertising
Marketing
Service Industry
$7M29 Jul 2008 Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

Fifth Generation Systems

Gaming
Information Technology
Software
$5M01 Jan 2008 New York, United States

Advanced BioHealing

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$25M27 Feb 2007 Connecticut, United States

Searchandise Commerce

Advertising
Marketing
Service Industry
$1M01 Aug 2006 Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

Pando Networks

Advertising
Content Delivery Network
Delivery
Video
Video Streaming
$7M16 May 2006 New York, New York, United States

Advanced BioHealing

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$8M21 Nov 2005 Connecticut, United States

Visiprise

Aerospace
Career Planning
Consulting
Enterprise Software
Manufacturing
$32M17 Oct 2005 Georgia, United States

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Total investments 55
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 1.83
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

eGifter

Bitcoin
E-Commerce
Gift Card
Mobile
Software
$1M11 Dec 2013 New York, United States

Oligomerix

Biotechnology
Ediscovery
Medical
$2M23 Apr 2012 New York, United States

Searchandise Commerce

Advertising
Marketing
Service Industry
$7M29 Jul 2008 Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

Fifth Generation Systems

Gaming
Information Technology
Software
$5M01 Jan 2008 New York, United States

Advanced BioHealing

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$25M27 Feb 2007 Connecticut, United States

Searchandise Commerce

Advertising
Marketing
Service Industry
$1M01 Aug 2006 Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

Pando Networks

Advertising
Content Delivery Network
Delivery
Video
Video Streaming
$7M16 May 2006 New York, New York, United States

Advanced BioHealing

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$8M21 Nov 2005 Connecticut, United States

Visiprise

Aerospace
Career Planning
Consulting
Enterprise Software
Manufacturing
$32M17 Oct 2005 Georgia, United States
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