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Institutional Investor

Founders Gilbert E. Kaplan

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.18
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 3
Key employees 14

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Electronics
Summary

Institutional Investor is the famous VC, which was founded in 1967. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Institutional Investor, startups are often financed by Relay Ventures, Early Warning Services, Verizon Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Synchrony Ventures, S.A.C Capital Associates, Pivotal Asset Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wellington Management, TransUnion, Synchrony Financial.

We also calculated 14 valuable employees in our database.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2007. Comparing to the other companies, this Institutional Investor performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kobo, Payfone, Accu-Break Pharmaceuticals. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Biological Dynamics

Biotechnology
Electronics
Health Care
$26M05 Nov 2015 San Diego, California, United States

Kobo

E-Commerce
Electrical Distribution
Electronics
Internet
News
Retail
$39M09 Mar 2011 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Commerx Corp.

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Internet
Security
Telecommunications
Virtualization
$38M14 Jan 2000 Calgary, Canada

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Total investments 10
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 0.18
Peak activity year 2003
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Biological Dynamics

Biotechnology
Electronics
Health Care
$26M05 Nov 2015 San Diego, California, United States

Kobo

E-Commerce
Electrical Distribution
Electronics
Internet
News
Retail
$39M09 Mar 2011 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Commerx Corp.

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Internet
Security
Telecommunications
Virtualization
$38M14 Jan 2000 Calgary, Canada
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