Janus Capital Group

Total investments

19

Average round size

100M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

0.35

Lead investments

3

Exits

14

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareGeneticsMedicalLife ScienceTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

In 1969 was created Janus Capital Group, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Denver.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lyft, AveXis, Workday. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Therapeutics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get 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 exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. When the investment is from Janus Capital Group the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. This Janus Capital Group works on 47 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Janus Capital Group, startups are often financed by Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Shasta Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foresite Capital, T. Rowe Price, RA Capital Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SharesPost Investment Management, M13, UTA Ventures.

The overall number of key employees were 10.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
3
Exits
14
Rounds per year
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (10)
  • Health Care (7)
  • Medical (6)
  • Therapeutics (5)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • Canada (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
2.25
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Silk Road Medical 18 Jul 2017 Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Late Stage Venture 47M United States, California, Sunnyvale

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