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What does HighBar Partners invest in?
HighBar Partners invests most often at Series D and Venture (54% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Cloud Computing, SaaS and Recurring.
HighBar Partners highlights
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14 rounds on record
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Mostly Series D and Venture: 54% of its rounds
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4 exits from the portfolio
What they do
HighBar Partners is a private investment firm that provides strategic growth capital to enterprise and infrastructure software companies.From their own website
- Type
- Private equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- Cloud ComputingSaaSRecurring
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first14 appearances
- 2019
1 round
- Jul
- 2014
1 round
- May
- 2013
4 rounds
- Nov
- Aug
- Apr
- Feb
- 2012
1 round
- Nov
- 2011
1 round
- Nov
- 2010
2 rounds
- Jun
- Jun
- 2008
1 round
- Oct
- 2005
1 round
- Apr
- 2004
2 rounds
- Mar
- Jan
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
JHJohn Hyungjoon KimManaging Member of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
RARoy Allen Thiele-SardinaManaging Member; Chief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
We also hold 11 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$115Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Highbar Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 166244
Funds on its Form ADV
3 private funds, $178M in gross assets · filed May 2024
- HighBar Partners III Opportunity Fund, L.P.Venture1 investor$166M
- HighBar Partners III, L.P.Venture26 investors$8.9M
- HighBar Partners II, L.P.Venture14 investors$3.8M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
6 of 8 we have independently watched raise
BlazentCloudsphereMariadbSignpostSilkroadtechnologyZettasetSs8Virtana
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed4 in all
SoonrBought by AutotaskUndisclosedJul 2015
VyattaBought by Brocade Communications SystemsUndisclosedNov 2012
Ingrian NetworksBought by SafeNetUndisclosedFeb 2008
NeoPath NetworksBought by CiscoUndisclosedMar 2007
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.