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Affinity Capital Management

Founders Edson Spencer

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 1.45
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 11
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Medical Device
  • Medical
  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
Summary

Affinity Capital Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1993. The company was established in North America in Minneapolis. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the United States.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Arbor Surgical Technologies, NovaSys, Disc Dynamics. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Medical Device.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Affinity Capital Management, startups are often financed by Delphi Ventures, Three Arch Partners, Prism Venture Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ONSET Ventures, Canaan Partners, Prism Venture Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polaris Partners, Delphi Ventures, Canaan Partners.

The typical startup value when the investment from Affinity Capital Management is 5-10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2008. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Comparing to the other companies, this Affinity Capital Management performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The current fund was established by Edson Spencer. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ExplORer Surgical

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
Software
$5M18 Apr 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$40M13 Mar 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

Respicardia

Health Care
Medical Device
Other Devices and Supplies
Therapeutic Devices
Therapeutics
$27M25 Aug 2010 Minnesota, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$17M07 Jul 2010 Seattle, Washington, United States

Baxano

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$30M23 Jun 2010 San Jose, California, United States

Hemosphere

Health Care
Medical Device
$9M07 Apr 2010 Georgia, United States

ValenTx

Health Care
Medical Device
$22M08 Sep 2009 Minnesota, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$6M21 Feb 2009 California, United States

Respicardia

Health Care
Medical Device
Other Devices and Supplies
Therapeutic Devices
Therapeutics
$21M17 Oct 2008 Minnesota, United States

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Total investments 42
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 1.45
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ExplORer Surgical

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
Software
$5M18 Apr 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$40M13 Mar 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

Respicardia

Health Care
Medical Device
Other Devices and Supplies
Therapeutic Devices
Therapeutics
$27M25 Aug 2010 Minnesota, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$17M07 Jul 2010 Seattle, Washington, United States

Baxano

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$30M23 Jun 2010 San Jose, California, United States

Hemosphere

Health Care
Medical Device
$9M07 Apr 2010 Georgia, United States

ValenTx

Health Care
Medical Device
$22M08 Sep 2009 Minnesota, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$6M21 Feb 2009 California, United States

Respicardia

Health Care
Medical Device
Other Devices and Supplies
Therapeutic Devices
Therapeutics
$21M17 Oct 2008 Minnesota, United States
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