WK Technology Fund

Total investments

31

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

21

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileManufacturingSecuritySemiconductorTelecommunicationsWirelessNetwork HardwareVideo Streaming

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Taipei. The venture was found in Asia in Taiwan.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the WK Technology Fund, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, TELUS Ventures, Raza Venture Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Voyager Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, TELUS Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

For fund there is no 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 Wireless, Network Hardware. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Aruba Networks, Polaris Networks, SmartPipes The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The important activity for fund was in 2002. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from WK Technology Fund is 50-100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this WK Technology Fund works on 0 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2012.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
7
Exits
6
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Wireless (13)
  • Semiconductor (10)
  • Software (7)
  • Telecommunications (6)
  • Mobile (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (25)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • India (2)
  • China (1)
Peak activity year
2002

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
29M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.62

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Polaris Networks 18 Mar 2002 Software, Telecommunications, Wireless Early Stage Venture 52M United States, Massachusetts
Ruckus Wireless 01 Jun 2004 Mobile, Wireless, Video Streaming Early Stage Venture 3M United States, California, Sunnyvale
Wallet App 10 Dec 2014 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Seed 14K Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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