Williams Communications

Total investments

5

Average round size

39M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.21

Exits

3

Areas of investment
CommercialInternetTransportationManufacturingDeveloper ToolsAdvertisingTelecommunicationsOptical CommunicationCommunications InfrastructureVoIP

Summary

In 1998 was created Williams Communications, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Broomfield. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Transportation, Telecommunications. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zaffire, Ignite Sports Media.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with more than 10 partakers. Despite the Williams Communications, startups are often financed by Kettle Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Worldview Technology Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pilgrim Baxter Hybrid Partners, OppenheimerFunds, Octane Capital Management.

The average startup value when the investment from Williams Communications is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2001. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Williams Communications works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Telecommunications (2)
  • Communications Infrastructure (2)
  • Optical Communication (2)
  • Transportation (1)
  • Commercial (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (5)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
120M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Tenor Networks 01 Aug 2000 Manufacturing, Developer Tools, Optical Communication Late Stage Venture 93M United States, Massachusetts
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