William E. Simon & Sons

Total investments

8

Average round size

32M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.29

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyDeveloper PlatformComputerConsultingOil and GasManagement Information SystemsPrinting

Summary

William E. Simon & Sons appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Morristown. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2003. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This William E. Simon & Sons works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Computer, Printing. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stonebridge Technologies, mValue.com, CarrierPoint. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the William E. Simon & Sons, startups are often financed by UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Sprout Group, CyberLab Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Sprout Group, Mellon Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Sprout Group, CyberLab Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.29
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Software (2)
  • Computer (2)
  • Internet (2)
  • Consulting (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (8)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
171K
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.01

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CarrierPoint 11 May 2000 Supply Chain Management, Software, Career Planning, Business Intelligence Early Stage Venture 21M United States, Atlanta, Georgia

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