Alafi Capital

Total investments

18

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

0.64

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySynthetic TextilesOther TextilesSoftwareHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceFashionTherapeutics

Summary

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 San Francisco.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Alafi Capital, startups are often financed by Claremont Creek Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Zygote Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Life Sciences Partners, Claremont Creek Ventures, Sequoia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techno Venture Management, Thomas, McNerney & Partners, Sequoia Capital.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bolt Threads, Hybrigenics, Arcxis Biotechnologies. 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 popular fund investment industries, there are Medical Device, Medical. 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.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2009. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Alafi Capital works on 25 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Alafi Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
2
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.64
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (12)
  • Health Care (7)
  • Medical Device (4)
  • Health Diagnostics (4)
  • Software (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
  • Germany (2)
  • Sweden (2)
  • France (1)
  • The Netherlands (1)
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Peak activity year
2002
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
105M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
17
Avg. multiplicator
1.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aurelia Turbines 01 Jan 2014 Information Technology, Manufacturing, Energy, Machinery Manufacturing Seed 0 Finland, South Karelia, Lappeenranta
Incision 01 Nov 2023 E-Learning, Health Care, Education Early Stage Venture 7M Noord-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kreatech Diagnostics 31 Jan 2010 Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics Early Stage Venture 2M North Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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