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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$144M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 1.15
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 4
Key employees 17

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • FinTech
Summary

Crestline appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1997. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Fort Worth. The company was established in North America in United States.

We also calculated 17 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Crestline, startups are often financed by North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, QuestMark Partners, Kaiser Permanente Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Mario Family Funds, Hatteras Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Perceptive Advisors, Morgenthaler Ventures, SightLine Partners.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 53 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Crestline works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Crestline the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Actifio, Urgent Team Holdings, Inc., DelGatto Diamond Finance. 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 popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Management Information Systems. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FinditParts

Automotive
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$30M31 May 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Riversand

Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Management Information Systems
Software
$35M05 Jun 2017 Houston, Texas, United States

Vapotherm

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$20M13 Jul 2015 New Hampshire, United States
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SumUp raises $895M in debt to double down on its B2C payments business

– SumUp, a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments, raised $895m in debt funding.
– The funding is coming from Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Bain Capital Credit, Crestline and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management.
– The company is already active in 33 countries (most recently Chile, Colombia and Romania) and has some 3 million businesses as customers.
– The company got its start back in 2012 as one of a wave of so-called Square “clones” — companies being founded in, but mostly outside of, the U.S. and basing their service around small card payment dongles that attached to phones or tablets.

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Total investments 31
Average round size 144M
Rounds per year 1.15
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.42

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FinditParts

Automotive
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$30M31 May 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Riversand

Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Management Information Systems
Software
$35M05 Jun 2017 Houston, Texas, United States

Vapotherm

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$20M13 Jul 2015 New Hampshire, United States
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