Fairfax Financial Holdings
27
148M
18
0.69
8
0.33
12
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1985 was created Fairfax Financial Holdings, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Toronto.
The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Fairfax Financial Holdings works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.
The current fund was established by Prem Watsa.
For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Embedded Systems, Marine Transportation. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TeamSnap. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Fairfax Financial Holdings, startups are often financed by Trinity Ventures, Toba Capital, Foundry Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foundry Group, Crawley Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TVS Capital Funds, Faering Capital, A91 Partners.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 27
- Lead investments
- 8
- Exits
- 12
- Rounds per year
- 0.69
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (7)
- Financial Services (7)
- Robotics (6)
- Software (6)
- Finance (6) Show 34 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (4)
- Canada (10)
- United States (7)
- China (1)
- India (5)
- Peak activity year
- 2023
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 24
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 258M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.19
- Avg. company exit year
- 16
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.45
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TeamSnap | 31 Jan 2017 | Consumer, Mobile, Sports | Late Stage Venture | 25M | United States, Boulder, Colorado |
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