Fenway Partners

Total investments

8

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.30

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsHardwareConsumer ElectronicsManagement Information Systems

Summary

Fenway Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The current fund was established by Andrea Geisser, Peter Lamm, Richard Dresdale. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Fenway Partners, startups are often financed by iMinds Ventures, iD Ventures America, First Albany Companies. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iD Ventures America, First Albany Companies, Trident Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iD Ventures America, Trident Capital, First Albany Companies.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Fenway Partners performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2005.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ShipServ, Fresher Information, IPnetwork. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Content. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.30
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Internet (4)
  • Artificial Intelligence (3)
  • Hardware (3)
  • Consumer Electronics (3)
  • Machine Learning (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (6)
  • Luxembourg (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
96M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
3
Avg. multiplicator
7.44
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
IPnetwork 20 Sep 2000 Information Services, Advertising, Management Information Systems Early Stage Venture 20M Canton Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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