HarbourVest Partners

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

269

Average round size

39M

Portfolio companies

219

Rounds per year

6.40

Lead investments

29

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

130

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobileFinanceHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingTelecommunications

Summary

In 1982 was created HarbourVest Partners, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston.

The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This HarbourVest Partners works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from HarbourVest Partners the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consulting, Information Technology. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Ultimate Software, Wayfair, Shopzilla

Besides them, we counted 46 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the HarbourVest Partners, startups are often financed by Menlo Ventures, DFJ, BDC Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Menlo Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pitango Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity.

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Analytics

Total investments
269
Lead investments
29
Exits
130
Rounds per year
6.40
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Software (81)
  • Enterprise Software (37)
  • Information Technology (35)
  • Internet (34)
  • Financial Services (32)
  • Show 219 more
Investments by region
  • United States (178)
  • Canada (23)
  • United Kingdom (9)
  • Israel (15)
  • India (4)
  • Show 17 more
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
33
Number of Decacorns
34
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
616M
Group Appearance index
0.74
Avg. company exit year
21
Avg. multiplicator
6.54
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Premama 01 Dec 2016 Consumer Goods, Health Care, Wellness, Dietary Supplements Early Stage Venture 0 United States, Rhode Island, Providence
Talent.com 16 Mar 2022 Early Stage Venture 120M
Waabi 18 Jun 2024 Early Stage Venture 200M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada

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