Blackstone Group

Summary

In 1985 was created Blackstone Group, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.

Comparing to the other companies, this Blackstone Group performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from Blackstone Group is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Peter G. Peterson, Stephen Schwarzman. Besides them, we counted 52 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Blackstone Group, startups are often financed by Advanced Technology Ventures, Khosla Ventures, CRV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Khosla Ventures, ClearSky, TenEleven Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Khosla Ventures, TenEleven Ventures, Kleiner Perkins.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ascenty, Cylance, Superbet. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference 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. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Finance, Software.