Frist Cressey Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Nashville, United States

Total investments

43

Average round size

62M

Portfolio companies

31

Rounds per year

5.38

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyFitnessHealth CareHospitalWellnessElectronic Health Record (EHR)Medical DeviceMedical

Summary

In 2016 was created Frist Cressey Ventures, which is appeared as VC. 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 Nashville.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical Device, Contact Management. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Valify, 180 Health Partners, Regroup Therapy. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Frist Cressey Ventures works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2020.

This organization was formed by Bill Frist, William Frist. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Frist Cressey Ventures, startups are often financed by Harvard Business School Angels Chicago, XMi High Growth Development Fund, OCA Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Resolute Venture Partners, Altitude Ventures, TT Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Spring Mountain Capital, Resolute Venture Partners, Heritage Group.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Healthcare
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
43
Lead investments
9
Exits
4
Rounds per year
5.38
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (37)
  • Hospital (13)
  • Medical (11)
  • Wellness (8)
  • Software (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (40)
Peak activity year
2023
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
447M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CareBridge 01 Dec 2019 Health Care Early Stage Venture 36M United States, Nashville, Tennessee
Praia Health 02 Apr 2024 Early Stage Venture 20M United States, Illinois, Chicago

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