Farallon Capital Management

Summary

Farallon Capital Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1986. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Farallon Capital Management, startups are often financed by Venrock, New Leaf Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sutter Hill Ventures, Chengwei Capital, Hillhouse Capital Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sutter Hill Ventures, Chengwei Capital, Tencent Holdings.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Go-Jek, Manbang Group, Intarcia Therapeutics We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Media and Entertainment.

This organization was formed by Tom Steyer. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Farallon Capital Management is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Farallon Capital Management performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.