Generation Partners

Total investments

16

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.62

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsFinanceMobile PaymentsAdvertisingWeb Browsers

Summary

Generation Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. 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 Greenwich.

Comparing to the other companies, this Generation Partners performs on 18 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Generation Partners, startups are often financed by RRE Ventures, Oak Investment Partners, StarVest Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oak Investment Partners, Goldman Sachs, Spectrum Equity. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak Investment Partners, StarVest Partners, RRE Ventures.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Leaf Group, BarterTrust.com, Prefix The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 fund investment industries, there are Media and Entertainment, Data Integration.

This organization was formed by John Hawkins, Mark Jennings. The overall number of key employees were 4.

Show more

Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
5
Exits
7
Rounds per year
0.62
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Internet (8)
  • Financial Services (4)
  • Advertising (4)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Finance (3)
  • Show 42 more
Investments by region
  • United States (13)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2000

Discover reliable insights

Leverage validated data, identify key contacts and secure funding opportunities for your business.

Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
56M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.97

Need more data?

Get access to full data about investors, including their team, contact information, and historic data.

Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Helcim Inc. 21 Mar 2022 E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech, Retail Technology, Payments, Mobile Payments Early Stage Venture 12M Alberta, Calgary, Canada

Similar funds

By same location

By same geo focus

By doing lead investments

How we get our data

At Unicorn Nest, we combine cutting-edge technology with human expertise to build one of the most reliable venture capital databases in the market. Our process begins with automated AI-enhanced data collection, leveraging the full potential of Large Language Models (LLMs).

Later, our team of analysts takes it further with manual verification, using proprietary tools for data cleaning and validation to ensure accuracy and reliability. We cross-check and enhance our findings through press and media monitoring, integrating information from trusted news outlets and venture capital aggregators. Finally, we stay ahead of the curve by monitoring social networks like LinkedIn and X.com.