Apex Venture Partners

Total investments

89

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

51

Rounds per year

2.41

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.43

Exits

26

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Business/Productivity SoftwareInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMarketing

Summary

Apex Venture Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1987. The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Apex Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Enterprise Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Advanced Equities. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are North Hill Ventures, ECentury Capital Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pritzker Group Venture Capital, North Hill Ventures, I2A Fund.

The current fund was established by James Johnson. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The average startup value when the investment from Apex Venture Partners is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Apex Venture Partners works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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 Bloom Energy, Cortera, Celox Networks. 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 E-Commerce, Analytics. The fund has specific favorite in a number of 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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
89
Lead investments
18
Exits
26
Rounds per year
2.41
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Software (40)
  • Enterprise Software (21)
  • Information Technology (19)
  • Internet (16)
  • Analytics (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (85)
  • Sweden (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • Austria (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
94M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
1.86
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AGEIA Technologies 03 Oct 2005 Gaming, PC Games, Hardware Late Stage Venture 27M United States, California, San Jose
Lumen Lighting 09 Mar 2017 Events, Home Decor, Lighting Seed 20K Utah, United States, Orem
Smart System Technologies 07 Apr 2004 Analytics, Payments, Marketing Automation Early Stage Venture 6M United States, California, Irvine

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