Easton Capital

Total investments

72

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

47

Rounds per year

2.88

Lead investments

21

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

20

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeutics

Summary

Easton Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund was created by John H. Friedman. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Biotechnology. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Biolex Therapeutics, Luminous Networks, Comprehend Systems Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Easton Capital, startups are often financed by Alta Partners, Rock Health, New Science Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Science Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, Boston Millennia Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TL Ventures, OrbiMed, New Science Ventures.

The important activity for fund was in 2007. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2006. Opposing the other organizations, this Easton Capital works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Easton Capital is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
72
Lead investments
21
Exits
20
Rounds per year
2.88
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (39)
  • Biotechnology (22)
  • Medical (22)
  • Therapeutics (14)
  • Medical Device (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (71)
  • France (1)
Peak activity year
2007
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
20M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.75
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
electroCore 30 Jun 2014 Health Care, Medical Device, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 55M United States, New Jersey
PerceptiMed 27 Mar 2015 Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Early Stage Venture 5M United States, California, Mountain View

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