Apax Partners

Summary

Apax Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1981. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Apax Partners, startups are often financed by Sevin Rosen Funds, Domain Associates, Alta Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Domain Associates, Star Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Star Ventures, Intel Capital, Accel.

Comparing to the other companies, this Apax Partners performs on 16 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Apax Partners the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2004. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2005.

The current fund was established by Alan Patricof, Ronald Cohen. The overall number of key employees were 38.

For fund there is no 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 Semiconductor, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight King.com, iGATE Global Solutions, Soufun. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.