WR Hambrecht

Summary

WR Hambrecht is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The fund was created by Robert Hambrecht, William Hambrecht. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the WR Hambrecht, startups are often financed by Marc Benioff, DFJ, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, GE Equity. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, Greycroft, Esther Dyson.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. The typical startup value when the investment from WR Hambrecht is 100-500 millions dollars. This WR Hambrecht works on 5 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2004. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LexisNexis, Salesforce, TangoMe. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, E-Commerce.