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Early Stage Partners

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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 1.90
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 7
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Medical Device
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • SaaS
Summary

Early Stage Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Cleveland.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Early Stage Partners works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2008.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Early Stage Partners, startups are often financed by Industrial Technology Ventures, Reservoir Venture Partners, JumpStart Inc.. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Draper Triangle, Industrial Technology Ventures, North Coast Angel Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Reservoir Venture Partners, Industrial Technology Ventures, Draper Triangle.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals, Juventas Therapeutics, CytoPherx. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Health Care. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HistoSonics

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Surgical Devices
$8M13 Mar 2017 Minnesota, United States

Amplifinity

Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Lead Generation
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
$7M18 Mar 2014 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

OnShift

Cloud Computing
Health Care
Hospital
SaaS
Software
$7M03 Feb 2014 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Juventas Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$22M16 Jul 2012 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

OnShift

Cloud Computing
Health Care
Hospital
SaaS
Software
$4M02 May 2012 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Automotive
CleanTech
Electronics
Energy Efficiency
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Software
Telecommunications
$5M12 Mar 2012 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

CytoPherx

Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$34M04 Jan 2012 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Amplifinity

Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Lead Generation
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
$3M09 Dec 2011 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

CardiOx

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$8M30 Aug 2011 Ohio, United States

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Total investments 40
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 1.90
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HistoSonics

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Surgical Devices
$8M13 Mar 2017 Minnesota, United States

Amplifinity

Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Lead Generation
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
$7M18 Mar 2014 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

OnShift

Cloud Computing
Health Care
Hospital
SaaS
Software
$7M03 Feb 2014 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Juventas Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$22M16 Jul 2012 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

OnShift

Cloud Computing
Health Care
Hospital
SaaS
Software
$4M02 May 2012 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Automotive
CleanTech
Electronics
Energy Efficiency
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Software
Telecommunications
$5M12 Mar 2012 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

CytoPherx

Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$34M04 Jan 2012 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Amplifinity

Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Lead Generation
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
$3M09 Dec 2011 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

CardiOx

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$8M30 Aug 2011 Ohio, United States
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