Baird Capital

Type

Venture Capital, Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

175

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

106

Rounds per year

1.67

Lead investments

54

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

41

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHuman ResourcesHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareMedical DeviceMedicalMarketing

Summary

In 1919 was created Baird Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Milwaukee.

The overall number of key employees were 21.

The top activity for fund was in 2013. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. When the investment is from Baird Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. This Baird Capital works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Hireology, Sittercity, GenomeDx Biosciences. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Medical. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Baird Capital, startups are often financed by I2A Fund, State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Sigma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Arboretum Ventures, State of Wisconsin Investment Board, MATH Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Beringea, InvestMichigan, Canaan Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseFintechHealthcareFuture of Work Show 7 more
Geo focus
BahrainCambodiaCanadaChinaCyprus Show 35 more
Check size
10M — 50M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
175
Lead investments
54
Exits
41
Rounds per year
1.67
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (58)
  • Software (47)
  • Biotechnology (34)
  • Medical (33)
  • SaaS (30)
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Investments by region
  • United States (149)
  • United Kingdom (11)
  • China (7)
  • Malaysia (2)
  • Canada (2)
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Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
21M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
16
Avg. multiplicator
0.79
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Odore 04 Jan 2019 Software, Information Technology, Big Data, Digital Marketing, Advertising, Internet of Things, Advertising Platforms, Direct Marketing, Content Marketing Seed 274K England, London, United Kingdom
ParkWhiz 26 Jan 2016 Transportation, Travel, Parking, Translation Service Late Stage Venture 24M United States, Illinois, Chicago
Forj 22 Dec 2022 Software, Event Management, Events Early Stage Venture 15M United States, Wisconsin, Waukesha

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