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Fairhaven Capital Partners

Founders Jim Goldinger Paul Ciriello

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 3.14
Lead investments 16
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 15
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Cyber Security
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Security
Summary

Fairhaven Capital Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Cambridge.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cylance, Digital Guardian, LeafLink For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cyber Security, Machine Learning.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Fairhaven Capital Partners is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2008. The important activity for fund was in 2015. This Fairhaven Capital Partners works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The current fund was established by Jim Goldinger, Paul Ciriello. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Fairhaven Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Prism Venture Management, General Motors Ventures, General Catalyst. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are General Catalyst, Next47, Goldman Sachs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Catalyst, General Motors Ventures, Polaris Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LÜK Network

Internet
Marketplace
$1M01 Jul 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Ionic Materials

Advanced Materials
Battery
Electronics
Manufacturing
$65M07 Feb 2018 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Pwnie Express

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$8M29 Nov 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

OpenSpace

Artificial Intelligence
Construction
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$3M01 Sep 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Py

EdTech
Mobile Apps
Software Engineering
$120K09 Aug 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

B2B
Cannabis
Marketplace
SaaS
Wholesale
$3M03 Apr 2017 New York, New York, United States

PathAI

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$4M06 Dec 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

PathAI

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$4M01 Dec 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

GoSecure

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Security
Security
Software
$10M01 Nov 2016 San Diego, California, United States

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Total investments 69
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 3.14
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 16
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LÜK Network

Internet
Marketplace
$1M01 Jul 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Ionic Materials

Advanced Materials
Battery
Electronics
Manufacturing
$65M07 Feb 2018 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Pwnie Express

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$8M29 Nov 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

OpenSpace

Artificial Intelligence
Construction
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$3M01 Sep 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Py

EdTech
Mobile Apps
Software Engineering
$120K09 Aug 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

B2B
Cannabis
Marketplace
SaaS
Wholesale
$3M03 Apr 2017 New York, New York, United States

PathAI

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$4M06 Dec 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

PathAI

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$4M01 Dec 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

GoSecure

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Security
Security
Software
$10M01 Nov 2016 San Diego, California, United States
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