Golden Gate Capital

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

20

Average round size

111M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

0.91

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Asset ManagementSoftwareRetailHealth CareManufacturingInsuranceElectronicsDigital MediaMiningPrecious Metals

Summary

In 2000 was created Golden Gate Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Pharmaceutical, Medical Device. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Infor, Infinium Labs, Itamar Medical. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the Golden Gate Capital, startups are often financed by Viola Growth, Trilogy Equity Partners, Summit Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are West Elk Partners, Versant Ventures, Thoma Cressey Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Koch Equity Development, Longitude Capital.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Opposing the other organizations, this Golden Gate Capital works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Golden Gate Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.

We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
4
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.91
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Software (3)
  • Health Care (3)
  • Insurance (3)
  • Mining (2)
  • Precious Metals (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • India (1)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
21M
Group Appearance index
0.40
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
12.14
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Jazz Pharmaceuticals 24 Mar 2004 Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 250M United States, California, Palo Alto

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