Ampersand Capital Partners

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Wellesley, United States

Total investments

72

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

55

Rounds per year

2.06

Lead investments

24

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

27

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareHealth CareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Wellesley. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Ampersand Capital Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Ampersand Capital Partners works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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 FirstRain, Endeca, Ensemble Communications. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Life Science, Medical. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

This organization was formed by Richard A. Charpie. We also calculated 11 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Ampersand Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Diamondhead Ventures, Venrock, Star Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Diamondhead Ventures, Venrock, Oak Investment Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak Investment Partners, Venrock, GGV Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareBiotech/Life SciencesManufacturing
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 38 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
72
Lead investments
24
Exits
27
Rounds per year
2.06
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (32)
  • Health Care (20)
  • Pharmaceutical (15)
  • Manufacturing (14)
  • Medical (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (62)
  • Australia (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • Germany (3)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
56M
Group Appearance index
0.43
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
7.92
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AnaBios 07 Jun 2022 Media and Information Services (B2B), Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceuticals, Medical, Pharmaceutical Late Stage Venture 6M United States, California, San Diego
Endeca 06 Feb 2002 E-Commerce, Software, Enterprise Software, Search Engine Late Stage Venture 16M United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts
FineMEMS 25 Sep 2015 Enterprise, Manufacturing, Electronics Early Stage Venture 0 Hubei, Jiang'an District, China

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