GFI Group

Total investments

3

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

2

Rounds per year

0.09

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

1

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetFinancial ServicesRetailFinanceManufacturingProduct DesignElectronicsTrading Platform

Summary

In 1987 was created GFI Group, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the GFI Group, startups are often financed by UBS Investment Bank, Plough Penny Partners, Oak Investment Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oak Investment Partners, UBS Investment Bank, Plough Penny Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak Investment Partners, Michel Daher, Goldman Sachs.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2011. Comparing to the other companies, this GFI Group performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BONDS.COM. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Finance, Product Design.

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Analytics

Total investments
3
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.09
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Retail (2)
  • Internet (2)
  • Financial Services (2)
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • Finance (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2011

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
9

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