Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

Total investments

34

Average round size

89M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

0.74

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

18

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceConsumer GoodsInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageHealth CareManufacturingMedicalBuilding MaterialPharmaceutical

Summary

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is the famous VC, which was founded in 1978. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

We also calculated 18 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, startups are often financed by PWP Growth Equity, Fidelity Management and Research Company, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, iHeartMedia, Wellington Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Weston Presidio Capital, Sequoia Capital, Wellington Management.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Clayton, Dubilier & Rice performs on 15 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SmileDirectClub, SquareTrade, Vets First Choice For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Hospital, Pharmaceutical. Besides, a startup needs to be aged more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
18
Exits
18
Rounds per year
0.74
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (6)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Pharmaceutical (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Consumer Goods (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • France (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Luxembourg (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
42
Avg. valuation at time of investment
929M
Group Appearance index
0.53
Avg. company exit year
39
Avg. multiplicator
3.64
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
iCopious.com 15 Feb 2000 Internet, Wireless Seed 2M United States, Washington
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