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Silver Lake Waterman

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Total investments 39
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$85M
Portfolio companies 34
Rounds per year 1.56
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 6
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Analytics
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Comparing to the other companies, this Silver Lake Waterman performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Silver Lake Waterman is more than 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 34 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Enterprise Software. 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. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SnapLogic, OneLogin, Demandbase.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Silver Lake Waterman, startups are often financed by Scale Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Scale Venture Partners, Redpoint, Morgenthaler Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vitruvian Partners, Triangle Peak Partners, Top Tier Capital Partners.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Graylog

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Open Source
Software
$9M31 Oct 2023 Houston, Texas, United States

Metropolis

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Internet
Machine Learning
Real Estate
Software
$167M15 Jun 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

FLYR Labs

Analytics
Big Data
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Travel
$150M22 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Cerebral

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
Psychology
Wellness
$127M10 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

ZeroFOX

Network Security
Security
Social Media
Software
$40M12 Jul 2017 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Big Switch Networks

Data Center
Information Technology
Network Security
Software
$48M19 Jan 2016 San Jose, California, United States
News
WestCap and Peter Thiel-backed FLYR Labs closes $150M Series C

– FLYR Labs, a deep learning platform for airlines, raised $150m in Series C funding.
– The funding round was led by WestCap, with participation from Silver Lake Waterman, WndrCo, as well as Peter Thiel, Streamlined Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures and Gopher Asset Management.
– The company plans to use the funding to grow its core business and expand into other verticals.

CreatorIQ Raises $40 Million In New Capital To Further Accelerate Its Global Influencer Marketing Software Leadership Position

– CreatorIQ, the trusted platform used by global brands like AB InBev, Disney, Sephora and Unilever, announced a new funding round by existing investors TVC Capital, Kayne Partners Fund, Affinity Group, and Unilever Ventures. Silver Lake Waterman also joined the round as a new investor.
– The new investment brings the company’s total capital raised to over $80 million.
– CreatorIQ – the trusted platform used by global brands like AB InBev, Disney, Sephora and Unilever – will use the funding to further accelerate the leadership position of its Creator Intelligence Cloud, with a focus on e-commerce and measurement.

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Total investments 39
Average round size 85M
Rounds per year 1.56
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Graylog

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Open Source
Software
$9M31 Oct 2023 Houston, Texas, United States

Metropolis

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Internet
Machine Learning
Real Estate
Software
$167M15 Jun 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

FLYR Labs

Analytics
Big Data
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Travel
$150M22 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Cerebral

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
Psychology
Wellness
$127M10 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

ZeroFOX

Network Security
Security
Social Media
Software
$40M12 Jul 2017 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Big Switch Networks

Data Center
Information Technology
Network Security
Software
$48M19 Jan 2016 San Jose, California, United States
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