First Analysis

Summary

First Analysis appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1981. 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 Chicago.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Analytics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Chrome River Technologies, Athersys, Courtagen Life Sciences For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

This organization was formed by Oliver Nicklin. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the First Analysis, startups are often financed by Wakestream Ventures, The Argentum Group, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Morgenthaler Ventures, DFJ, William Blair. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sigma Partners, SV Health Investors, The Argentum Group.

Comparing to the other companies, this First Analysis performs on 1 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from First Analysis is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.