Great Hill Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

82

Average round size

43M

Portfolio companies

72

Rounds per year

3.42

Lead investments

29

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

35

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AccountingE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Great Hill Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Boston.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Great Hill Partners, startups are often financed by e.ventures, InterWest Partners, Greycroft. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are HarbourVest Partners, e.ventures, Spark Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by PWP Growth Equity, Greycroft, Greenspring Associates.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Great Hill Partners performs on 11 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. When the investment is from Great Hill Partners the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Accounting. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Wayfair, The RealReal, BlueSnap Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The overall number of key employees were 11.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EcommerceFintechHealthcareAnalytics
Check size
25M — 500M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 4650000000
Fund raised date
2022-02-02

Analytics

Total investments
82
Lead investments
29
Exits
35
Rounds per year
3.42
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • Software (22)
  • E-Commerce (18)
  • SaaS (15)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Payments (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (67)
  • Canada (2)
  • Denmark (2)
  • Brazil (4)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
117M
Group Appearance index
0.30
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
1.40
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Buscapé 27 Dec 2005 E-Commerce, Internet, Payments, Lifestyle, Electronics, Shopping, Price Comparison Early Stage Venture 15M Brazil, São Paulo
ManagedStorage International 21 Feb 2002 Enterprise, Enterprise Software, Data Storage Early Stage Venture 9M United States, Colorado
Mythical Games 04 Nov 2019 Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games Early Stage Venture 19M United States, California, Los Angeles
Seekmi 24 May 2016 Mobile, Apps Early Stage Venture Jakarta Raya, Jakarta, Indonesia

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