Chicago Growth Partners

Total investments

16

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.89

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.56

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommercePaymentsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMobile PaymentsMedical DevicePharmaceuticalElectronicsBilling

Summary

Chicago Growth Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2004. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Mobile Payments. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight EndoGastric Solutions, 2Checkout, TargeGen. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2009. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Chicago Growth Partners performs on 7 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Chicago Growth Partners, startups are often financed by Foundation Medical Partners, Advanced Technology Ventures, DeNovo Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Advanced Technology Ventures, Foundation Medical Partners, DeNovo Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Advanced Technology Ventures, Radius Ventures, Foundation Medical Partners.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
3
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.89
Follow on index
0.56
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (13)
  • Medical Device (10)
  • Health Diagnostics (9)
  • Biotechnology (3)
  • Pharmaceutical (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
Peak activity year
2009
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
101M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
2.03
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

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