Capricorn Investment Group
Venture Capital
Active
Palo Alto, United States
91
78M
54
3.79
7
0.41
14
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2000 was created Capricorn Investment Group, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Capricorn Investment Group works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Capricorn Investment Group the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Capricorn Investment Group, startups are often financed by Social Capital, Prelude Ventures, LLC, Shell Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Social Capital, Shell Ventures, Founders Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Prelude Ventures, LLC, Valor Equity Partners, The Westly Group.
This organization was formed by Ion Yadigaroglu, Stephen George. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight QuantumScape, Yammer, HeartFlow. 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 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Renewable Energy, Manufacturing.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 91
- Lead investments
- 7
- Exits
- 14
- Rounds per year
- 3.79
- Follow on index
- 0.41
- Investments by industry
- Renewable Energy (21)
- Energy (16)
- Manufacturing (14)
- Hardware (13)
- Information Technology (12) Show 98 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (81)
- Canada (3)
- India (2)
- Norway (1)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 8
- Number of Decacorns
- 8
- Number of Minotaurs
- 5
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 451M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.93
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.31
- Strategy success index
- 0.90
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