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Generation Partners

Founders John Hawkins Mark Jennings

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$34M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 7
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Financial Services
  • Advertising
  • Information Technology
  • Finance
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Helcim Inc.

E-Commerce
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
Retail Technology
$12M21 Mar 2022 Calgary, Canada

Payactiv

Employee Benefits
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
Mobile Payments
Payments
Wellness
$100M13 Aug 2020 San Jose, California, United States

Payactiv

Employee Benefits
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
Mobile Payments
Payments
Wellness
$20M10 Oct 2018 San Jose, California, United States

Donuts

Domain Registrar
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Internet
Web Browsers
10 Apr 2013 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Donuts

Domain Registrar
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Internet
Web Browsers
$100M01 Jan 2012 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Leaf Group

Advertising
Art
Content
Internet
Marketplace
Social Media
$100M28 Sep 2006 Santa Monica, California, United States

ShopWiki

Developer Tools
E-Commerce
Price Comparison
Search Engine
Shopping
Video
$6M01 Jul 2006 New York, United States

iCrossing

Advertising
Consulting
Digital Marketing
Semantic Search
SEO
$13M13 Jul 2005 England

Reliacast

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
iOS
Management Information Systems
Software
$35M30 Oct 2000 Virginia, United States

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Total investments 16
Average round size 34M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Helcim Inc.

E-Commerce
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
Retail Technology
$12M21 Mar 2022 Calgary, Canada

Payactiv

Employee Benefits
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
Mobile Payments
Payments
Wellness
$100M13 Aug 2020 San Jose, California, United States

Payactiv

Employee Benefits
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
Mobile Payments
Payments
Wellness
$20M10 Oct 2018 San Jose, California, United States

Donuts

Domain Registrar
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Internet
Web Browsers
10 Apr 2013 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Donuts

Domain Registrar
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Internet
Web Browsers
$100M01 Jan 2012 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Leaf Group

Advertising
Art
Content
Internet
Marketplace
Social Media
$100M28 Sep 2006 Santa Monica, California, United States

ShopWiki

Developer Tools
E-Commerce
Price Comparison
Search Engine
Shopping
Video
$6M01 Jul 2006 New York, United States

iCrossing

Advertising
Consulting
Digital Marketing
Semantic Search
SEO
$13M13 Jul 2005 England

Reliacast

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
iOS
Management Information Systems
Software
$35M30 Oct 2000 Virginia, United States
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