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GLG Partners

Founders Pierre Lagrange

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$51M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.35
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 4
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Solar
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Nanotechnology
Summary

In 1995 was created GLG Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Solar, Renewable Energy. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Mode Media, Infinia, GodTube Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2008. The typical startup value when the investment from GLG Partners is more than 1 billion dollars. This GLG Partners works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The current fund was established by Pierre Lagrange. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the GLG Partners, startups are often financed by Benchmark, Walden Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vulcan Capital, Wexford Capital, Khosla Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by US Department of Energy, Hubert Burda Media, Aeris Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GodTube

Apps
Broadcasting, Radio and Television
Communities
Mobile Apps
Religion
Social Content
Social Network
Video
$30M04 May 2008 Plano, Texas, United States

Clean Energy
Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$7M22 Apr 2008 Ogden, Utah, United States

SpinVox

Messaging
Mobile
Service Industry
$100M20 Mar 2008 England

Clean Energy
Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$50M12 Feb 2008 Ogden, Utah, United States

Nanosolar

Nanotechnology
Renewable Energy
Solar
$75M21 Jun 2006 United States, San Jose

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Total investments 9
Average round size 51M
Rounds per year 0.35
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GodTube

Apps
Broadcasting, Radio and Television
Communities
Mobile Apps
Religion
Social Content
Social Network
Video
$30M04 May 2008 Plano, Texas, United States

Clean Energy
Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$7M22 Apr 2008 Ogden, Utah, United States

SpinVox

Messaging
Mobile
Service Industry
$100M20 Mar 2008 England

Clean Energy
Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$50M12 Feb 2008 Ogden, Utah, United States

Nanosolar

Nanotechnology
Renewable Energy
Solar
$75M21 Jun 2006 United States, San Jose
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