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Comdisco Ventures
 NEWS FROM THE STANDARD
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 PROFILE
Comdisco Ventures aimed to help high-tech startups get down with their funky, high-tech selves, but just as the disco era ended, so too has the dot-com rage. The venture capital arm of Comdisco, founded in 1987, invested in communications, hardware, Internet, networking, and other startups, offering traditional equity debt, as well as venture leases, through which the firm obtained stakes in new companies through equipment leases. These leases provided startups with needed equipment, facilities, and other necessities. It invested about $3 billion in some 800 companies before the Tech Wreck; Comdisco's IPO plans for the unit fell through, it halted new investments in early 2001, cut its staff, and began winding down.

 COMPETITION
Bank of America Corporation (BAC)
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (dossier)
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (dossier)

 DEALS
Deal: Ocular Networks Raises $30 Million
Date Announced: 01.15.01
Value of transaction (US $Mil): 30
Description: Metropolitan area network optical networking product developer raises $30 million, which will be dedicated chiefly to building manufacturing capacity and building sales forces.

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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: September
2000 Sales (mil.): 673.00
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 194.5%
Employees: 51
Revenue per employee: $13,196,078.43

 KEY PEOPLE
• Frank Cirone
    CEO
• John J. Vosicky
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
6111 N. River Rd.
Rosemont, IL 60018
US
Phone: 847-698-3000
Fax: -
Online: Web Site

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