Guidant

Summary

Guidant is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1994. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Indianapolis. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2004. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Guidant is 100-500 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Guidant works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2008.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Guidant, startups are often financed by Sanderling Ventures, Biofrontier Partners, Versant Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Three Arch Partners, Sanderling Ventures, Oxford Bioscience Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Versant Ventures, Three Arch Partners.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical Device, Therapeutics. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Intrapace, Bioheart, CardioMEMS.