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Citadel

Founders Kenneth Griffin

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$199M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 0.50
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 5
Key employees 66
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Citadel is the famous VC, which was founded in 1990. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Citadel appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with more than 10 partakers. Despite the Citadel, startups are often financed by SV Health Investors, Skyline Ventures, Amgen Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Health Investors, Eventide, Wells Fargo. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UBS, Societe Generale, Natixis.

This organization was formed by Kenneth Griffin. The overall number of key employees were 66.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Citadel works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Symphony Communication Services Holdings, The Small Exchange, Avrobio. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Services, Genetics.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flash Coffee

Coffee
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$12M11 May 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Flash Coffee

Coffee
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$5M16 Oct 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Yellowbrick Data

Analytics
Cloud Data Services
Database
Information Technology
$75M03 Nov 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Quant

$11K01 Oct 2021 Illinois City, Illinois, United States

Edgewise Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$95M08 Dec 2020 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Jasper Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
25 Jan 2020 Latvia, Courland, Latvia

The Small Exchange

Finance
Financial Services
Product Research
Retail
Service Industry
Trading Platform
$10M16 May 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Avrobio

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
$60M01 Feb 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Symphony Communication Services

Information Services
Information Technology
Messaging
Software
Unified Communications
$66M01 Oct 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 17
Average round size 199M
Rounds per year 0.50
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flash Coffee

Coffee
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$12M11 May 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Flash Coffee

Coffee
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$5M16 Oct 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Yellowbrick Data

Analytics
Cloud Data Services
Database
Information Technology
$75M03 Nov 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Quant

$11K01 Oct 2021 Illinois City, Illinois, United States

Edgewise Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$95M08 Dec 2020 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Jasper Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
25 Jan 2020 Latvia, Courland, Latvia

The Small Exchange

Finance
Financial Services
Product Research
Retail
Service Industry
Trading Platform
$10M16 May 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Avrobio

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
$60M01 Feb 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Symphony Communication Services

Information Services
Information Technology
Messaging
Software
Unified Communications
$66M01 Oct 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States
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