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Apax Partners

Founders Alan Patricof Ronald Cohen

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Total investments 236
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$37M
Portfolio companies 168
Rounds per year 5.49
Lead investments 41
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 113
Key employees 39
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Mobile
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GAN Integrity

Compliance
SaaS
Software
26 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Swing Education

E-Learning
Education
Recruiting
$38M01 Jun 2023 California, United States

Pop Meals (previously dahmakan)

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Logistics
Robotics
$2M04 Jan 2018 Kuala Lumpur

Traxpay

B2B
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$15M23 Sep 2014 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

DEONTICS

Big Data
Health Care
$959K28 Aug 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Dune Medical Devices

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$14M26 Jun 2014 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Transera Communications

Analytics
Cloud Computing
SaaS
Software
$17M01 Apr 2009 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Crescendo Networks

Architecture
Delivery
Hardware
Software
Web Hosting
$9M30 Jul 2008 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Tideway

Data Center
Enterprise
Information Technology
Software
$27M08 Apr 2008 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Tide Raises $100M in Series C Funding

– Tide from London, UK provides a business financial platform that offers business accounts and related banking services, as well as a comprehensive set of software solutions.
– The company raised $100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by funds advised by Apax Digital, the growth equity team of Apax Partners, with participation from existing investors Anthemis, Augmentum, Jigsaw, Local Globe / Latitude, SBI, and SpeedInvest.
– The new investment will be used to continue to develop their business financial platform, grow their market share and expand globally.

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Total investments 236
Average round size 37M
Rounds per year 5.49
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 41
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 113
Group Appearance index 0.72

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GAN Integrity

Compliance
SaaS
Software
26 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Swing Education

E-Learning
Education
Recruiting
$38M01 Jun 2023 California, United States

Pop Meals (previously dahmakan)

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Logistics
Robotics
$2M04 Jan 2018 Kuala Lumpur

Traxpay

B2B
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$15M23 Sep 2014 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

DEONTICS

Big Data
Health Care
$959K28 Aug 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Dune Medical Devices

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$14M26 Jun 2014 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Transera Communications

Analytics
Cloud Computing
SaaS
Software
$17M01 Apr 2009 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Crescendo Networks

Architecture
Delivery
Hardware
Software
Web Hosting
$9M30 Jul 2008 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Tideway

Data Center
Enterprise
Information Technology
Software
$27M08 Apr 2008 London, England, United Kingdom
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