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What does HGST invest in?
HGST invests most often at Series B and Series C (50% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Asset Management, E-Commerce and Enterprise Software.
HGST highlights
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16 rounds on record
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Mostly Series B and Series C: 50% of its rounds
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4 exits from the portfolio
What they do
The page is about high-capacity HDDs for PCs, NAS, Gaming, Data Centers, and AI Data Cycles.From their own website
- Type
- Corporate VC (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $1.0M – $20M as they say
- Stages
- GrowthSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- Asset ManagementE-CommerceEnterprise Software
- Based in
- Irvine, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first16 appearances
- 2019
1 round
- Jan
- 2018
4 rounds
- Dec
- Jun
- Apr
- Apr
- 2017
2 rounds
- Mar
- Mar
- 2016
2 rounds
- Jan
- Jan
- 2014
3 rounds
- Nov
- Sept
- Jul
- 2013
3 rounds
- Nov
- Aug
- Feb
- 2012
1 round
- Mar
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
We hold 3 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.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed4 in all
Avere SystemsBought by MicrosoftUndisclosedJan 2018
Silver Spring NetworksListed$81MMar 2013
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
Companies it bought
Acquisitions by the firm itself