Corsair Capital

Total investments

17

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

0.57

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

11

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceBankingInsuranceWealth ManagementService Industry

Summary

Corsair Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1992. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Nicholas B. Paumgarten. The overall number of key employees were 9.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Corsair Capital, startups are often financed by IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), Venrock, Seventure Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), Crosslink Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IGM Financial, Venrock, USAA.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Corsair Capital works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from Corsair Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight IDnow, Personal Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
2
Exits
11
Rounds per year
0.57
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (10)
  • Finance (5)
  • Insurance (4)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Internet (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • Germany (1)
  • Argentina (1)
  • Italy (1)
  • South Korea (1)
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Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
34
Avg. valuation at time of investment
29M
Group Appearance index
0.29
Avg. company exit year
33
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Personal Capital 05 Jun 2013 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Wealth Management Late Stage Venture 25M United States, California, Redwood Shores

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