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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$210M
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 0.65
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 11
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Debt

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Lending
  • Finance
  • Banking
Summary

Jefferies appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1962. 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.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Avant, Affirm, Symphony Communication Services Holdings. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Financial Services, Information Technology. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Jefferies, startups are often financed by Soros Fund Management, Story Ventures, Sofinnova Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Soros Fund Management, Spark Capital, Point72 Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Soros Fund Management, Ribbit Capital, Point72 Ventures.

The overall number of key employees were 7.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Jefferies is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Jefferies performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NextRNA Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$46M01 Mar 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Superpedestrian

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer
Hardware
$125M01 Feb 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Lending
Risk Management
$15M30 Jan 2019 New York, New York, United States

Ualá

Apps
Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$34M03 Oct 2018 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Ualá

Apps
Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$10M06 Feb 2018 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Ualá

Apps
Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
20 Jan 2017 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Bond Street

B2B
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Lending
$10M18 Jun 2015 New York, New York, United States

Affirm

Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
Payments
$275M06 May 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Symphony Communication Services

Information Services
Information Technology
Messaging
Software
Unified Communications
$66M01 Oct 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 40
Average round size 210M
Rounds per year 0.65
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NextRNA Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$46M01 Mar 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Superpedestrian

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer
Hardware
$125M01 Feb 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Lending
Risk Management
$15M30 Jan 2019 New York, New York, United States

Ualá

Apps
Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$34M03 Oct 2018 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Ualá

Apps
Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$10M06 Feb 2018 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Ualá

Apps
Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
20 Jan 2017 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Bond Street

B2B
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Lending
$10M18 Jun 2015 New York, New York, United States

Affirm

Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
Payments
$275M06 May 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Symphony Communication Services

Information Services
Information Technology
Messaging
Software
Unified Communications
$66M01 Oct 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States
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