Hellman & Friedman

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

20

Average round size

387M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

0.50

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

10

Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareInsuranceProperty ManagementWeb BrowsersCustomer ServiceElder Care

Summary

Hellman & Friedman is the famous VC, which was founded in 1984. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. 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 Cloud Infrastructure, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Genesys, Nexant, Adchemy. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Tully Friedman. We also calculated 24 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Hellman & Friedman, startups are often financed by Young & Rubicam, TCV, Stone Point Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Young & Rubicam, Stone Point Capital, Permira. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mayfield Fund, BDC Venture Capital, August Capital.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Hellman & Friedman is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. This Hellman & Friedman works on 51 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 2440000000
Fund raised date
2024-04-12

Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
2
Exits
10
Rounds per year
0.50
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
  • Insurance (4)
  • SaaS (4)
  • Health Care (3)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (4)
  • United States (14)
  • Bermuda (2)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
29
Avg. valuation at time of investment
669M
Group Appearance index
0.70
Avg. company exit year
20
Avg. multiplicator
0.73
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

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