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In 1999, for example, Intel started the Itanium 64 Fund, a $250M fund that invested in companies creating products using its Itanium 64-bit processor.
In 2000 alone, more than 20 new CVC groups made their first investment, according to CB Insights data.
At the height of the boom in 2000, Intel Capital posted gains of $3.7B, accounting for one third of Intel’s total profit.
Corporations were forced to write down $9.5B of venture related losses in the second quarter of 2001 alone.
Shell, Mitsubishi, and Johnson Matthey, for example, came together to form a CVC fund investing in fuel cell technologies as late as 2002.
However, it then experienced 10 successive quarters of losses that nearly wiped out those gains — but kept on investing throughout, and was again posting profitable quarters by early 2004.
The Venture Capital Cycle, 2004.
Valentine estimated in 2004 that Sequoia have financed probably six hundred different companies, with about forty of those companies being semiconductor companies, as that industry was a fundamental business to the digital revolution.
The second spark that helped CVC’s resurgence was Google’s 2008 decision to start Google Ventures, likewise derided by some.
Salesforce has substantially increased its investments to more than $500M, from $27M in 2011.
Microsoft’s 18 deals in 2016 are more than many robust independent VCs typically make per year — and the group was only founded towards the end of January.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cipher | 2000 | $7.0M | 100 | 30 |
| I.B.I.S. | 1989 | $1.2M | 125 | - |
| Astute Solutions | 1995 | $100.0M | 300 | 2 |
| iCIMS | 1999 | $200.0M | 1,000 | 211 |
| 1998 | $350.0B | 139,995 | 3,768 | |
| Prevalent | 2004 | $5.0M | 300 | 6 |
| Aristotle | 1983 | $8.5M | 150 | 32 |
| PeopleFluent | 1997 | $93.0M | 750 | 8 |
| Viant Technology | 1999 | $289.2M | 350 | 90 |
| MIMICS, Inc. | 2019 | - | 31 | - |
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