Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Total investments

107

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

94

Rounds per year

1.70

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

25

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSVideoAdvertising

Summary

In 1961 was created Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Palo Alto.

The current fund was established by Larry Sonsini. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Mesirow Financial, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OS Fund, New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mohr Davidow Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, S3 Ventures.

When the investment is from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Pivot3, Kenandy. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Marketing.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
107
Lead investments
4
Exits
25
Rounds per year
1.70
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Software (26)
  • Biotechnology (16)
  • Information Technology (15)
  • Internet (13)
  • Health Care (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (102)
  • China (1)
  • Israel (1)
  • South Korea (1)
  • Kenya (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
59M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
3.38
Strategy success index
0.40

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