Citadel

Summary

Citadel is the famous VC, which was founded in 1990. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Citadel appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with more than 10 partakers. Despite the Citadel, startups are often financed by SV Health Investors, Skyline Ventures, Amgen Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Health Investors, Eventide, Wells Fargo. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UBS, Societe Generale, Natixis.

This organization was formed by Kenneth Griffin. The overall number of key employees were 66.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Citadel works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Symphony Communication Services Holdings, The Small Exchange, Avrobio. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Services, Genetics.