Black River Asset Management

Total investments

19

Average round size

31M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

0.12

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

11

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSecurityPharmaceuticalEnergyRenewable EnergySolar

Summary

Black River Asset Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1865. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Hopkins. The company was established in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BrightSource Energy, Seba Crypto, Alvine Pharmaceuticals. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Renewable Energy. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

This organization was formed by Jim Sayre.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Black River Asset Management, startups are often financed by Cargill Ventures, Venture Investors, Cardinal Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cargill Ventures, Altos Ventures, Trident Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VantagePoint Capital Partners, OPIC - Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Enerdigm Ventures.

The important activity for fund was in 2008. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Black River Asset Management works on 28 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
3
Exits
11
Rounds per year
0.12
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Energy (5)
  • Solar (4)
  • Renewable Energy (4)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • France (1)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2006
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
112M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
2.13
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BrightSource Energy 27 Jun 2008 Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Late Stage Venture 115M United States, California, Oakland

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