Balyasny Asset Management

Total investments

19

Average round size

124M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

0.86

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceMachine LearningHealth CareRoboticsPharmaceutical

Summary

Balyasny Asset Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Coinbase, Avant, Peloton Interactive The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Bitcoin. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 9-10 participants. Despite the Balyasny Asset Management, startups are often financed by Lux Capital, Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tiger Global Management, RRE Ventures, Wellington Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, Wellington Management, Tech Pioneers Fund.

The typical startup value when the investment from Balyasny Asset Management is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2008. Opposing the other organizations, this Balyasny Asset Management works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
0
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.86
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (4)
  • Software (3)
  • FinTech (3)
  • Finance (3)
  • Health Care (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • China (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
14.79

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cuebiq 08 Feb 2017 Analytics, Retail Technology, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Market Research, Advertising, Location Based Services Early Stage Venture 6M United States, New York, New York

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