Since emerging from stealth a year ago, Dell Technologies Capital, the venture investment practice for Dell Technologies, has completed 24 new and follow-on investments as part of its $100 million average annual investment run rate.
The company reports that a third of its new investments are focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and the remaining investments focused on security, next-gen infrastructure and other technology areas strategic to the Dell Technologies family of companies.
Some other notes.
- Dell Technologies Capital had 11 exits in the past year, of which three of its portfolio companies IPO’d in the past seven months.
- Dell Technologies Capital was the first institutional investor in Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS), a leading pioneer in transforming network security for the cloud era; the startup went public in March 2018.
- Dell Technologies Capital invested in MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB) which went public in October 2017
- Dell Technologies Capital invested in DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU), which also went public recently
- Dell Technologies Capital’s portfolio includes several startups currently experiencing growth rates of more than 100% and several exceeding $50 million in revenue.
“Since coming out of stealth at Dell EMC World last year, we’ve had a very busy, and very successful, year,” said Scott Darling, president of Dell Technologies Capital. “We are delighted with our continued strong performance and the market reception to the DocuSign, MongoDB and Zscaler IPOs. The real value we bring to Dell Technologies and our startup portfolio companies is through our joint work, which allows us to deliver best-of-breed solutions for our customers faster, especially in emerging tech areas.”
https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/capital/ventures/portfolio.htm