Guidepost Growth Equity

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

21

Average round size

45M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

1.31

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesHuman ResourcesSaaSEnterprise SoftwareData IntegrationCloud ComputingMarket ResearchWeb DevelopmentStaffing Agency

Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston.

This organization was formed by Doug Kingsley, Eugene Nogi, Mike Pehl, Roshen Menon, Russell Pyle.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Analytics, Enterprise Applications. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ThinkHR

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Guidepost Growth Equity, startups are often financed by SaaS Capital, Kennet Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Salesforce Ventures.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

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15M — 75M

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Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
7
Exits
3
Rounds per year
1.31
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • SaaS (5)
  • Human Resources (4)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
  • Financial Services (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
  • Germany (1)
  • Austria (1)
  • Spain (1)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
252M
Group Appearance index
0.43
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
6.37
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Atlas 15 Sep 2022 Software, Financial Services, Management Consulting Early Stage Venture 200M United States, Illinois, Chicago

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