Five Points Capital

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Winston-Salem, United States

Total investments

57

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

54

Rounds per year

2.19

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

24

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
AutomotiveLogisticsBiotechnologyCommercialConsumer GoodsFood and BeverageHealth CareEducationManufacturingIndustrial

Summary

Five Points Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Winston Salem.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Five Points Capital, startups are often financed by Storie Partners, Quantum Industrial Partners, DW Healthcare Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DW Healthcare Partners, SIP (Strategic Investment Partners Ltd.), Portfolio Advisors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Norwest Mezzanine Partners, Invemed Catalyst Fund, GE Capital.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Earthlink, Micell Technologies, JML Optical Industries. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Food and Beverage, Logistics.

This Five Points Capital works on 24 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2012. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Geo focus
United States

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Analytics

Total investments
57
Lead investments
1
Exits
24
Rounds per year
2.19
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (18)
  • Health Care (7)
  • Commercial (7)
  • Industrial (6)
  • Automotive (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (55)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
29
Avg. valuation at time of investment
111M
Group Appearance index
0.25
Avg. company exit year
20
Avg. multiplicator
12.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
City Signal Communications 07 Mar 2002 Enterprise, Service Industry, Precious Metals Late Stage Venture 17M United States, Pennsylvania

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