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WK Technology Fund

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$20M
Portfolio companies 21
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 6
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Wireless
  • Semiconductor
  • Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Mobile
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Content
E-Commerce
Mobile
$25M08 Nov 2005 United States, Cupertino

iPolicy Networks

Enterprise
Security
Software
$15M04 Oct 2005 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ruckus Wireless

Mobile
Video Streaming
Wireless
$9M19 Sep 2005 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Aruba Networks

$27M26 Jul 2004 -

Ruckus Wireless

Mobile
Video Streaming
Wireless
$3M01 Jun 2004 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Enterprise
Security
Software
$26M04 May 2004 Uttar Pradesh

Microfabrica

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$15M02 Mar 2004 Los Angeles, California, United States

Business Development
Developer Platform
Finance
$17M03 Jul 2002 California, United States

Resonext Communications

Semiconductor
Telecommunications
Wireless
$14M18 Jun 2002 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 20M
Peak activity year 2002
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Content
E-Commerce
Mobile
$25M08 Nov 2005 United States, Cupertino

iPolicy Networks

Enterprise
Security
Software
$15M04 Oct 2005 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ruckus Wireless

Mobile
Video Streaming
Wireless
$9M19 Sep 2005 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Aruba Networks

$27M26 Jul 2004 -

Ruckus Wireless

Mobile
Video Streaming
Wireless
$3M01 Jun 2004 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Enterprise
Security
Software
$26M04 May 2004 Uttar Pradesh

Microfabrica

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$15M02 Mar 2004 Los Angeles, California, United States

Business Development
Developer Platform
Finance
$17M03 Jul 2002 California, United States

Resonext Communications

Semiconductor
Telecommunications
Wireless
$14M18 Jun 2002 San Jose, California, United States
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