Frontenac Company

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

22

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

0.42

Lead investments

2

Exits

13

Areas of investment
InternetInformation TechnologyE-LearningHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareSmall and Medium BusinessesEducationManufacturingService IndustryMachinery Manufacturing

Summary

In 1971 was created Frontenac Company, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

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 Internet, Network Security. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sigma Networks, BroadStreet Communications, Altrio Communications For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Frontenac Company, startups are often financed by Mission Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Chase Capital Partners, Weber Capital, TCV.

The fund was created by Martin Koldyke.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The real fund results show that this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2004. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. This Frontenac Company works on 41 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Geo focus
CanadaUnited States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
2
Exits
13
Rounds per year
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Internet (4)
  • Health Care (2)
  • Enterprise Software (2)
  • Small and Medium Businesses (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
42
Avg. valuation at time of investment
64M
Group Appearance index
0.50
Avg. company exit year
31
Avg. multiplicator
4.80
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sigma Networks 23 Feb 2001 Network Security, Open Source, VoIP Early Stage Venture 435M United States, California, Sunnyvale
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