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Winston Partners

Founders Scott Andrews

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$32M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.17
Lead investments 2
Exits 3
Key employees 7

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
Summary

Winston Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1993. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Arlington. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2006. Comparing to the other companies, this Winston Partners performs on 31 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Shopping, Video. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cradle Technologies, Oblix, Renaissance Interactive Holding Corporation

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Winston Partners, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Novell, TA Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, Tredegar Investments, TA Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nimes Capital, NeoCarta Ventures, Investor Growth Capital Limited.

The fund was created by Scott Andrews. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cradle Technologies

Hardware
Hospital
Manufacturing
Network Security
Video
$21M23 Jun 2003 Mountain View, California, United States

IPG Photonics

Electronics
Hardware
Industrial Manufacturing
Laser
Manufacturing
$80M21 Sep 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$16M29 Mar 2000 Columbia, South Carolina, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 32M
Rounds per year 0.17
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 2
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cradle Technologies

Hardware
Hospital
Manufacturing
Network Security
Video
$21M23 Jun 2003 Mountain View, California, United States

IPG Photonics

Electronics
Hardware
Industrial Manufacturing
Laser
Manufacturing
$80M21 Sep 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$16M29 Mar 2000 Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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