Jefferies

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

36

Average round size

129M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

0.58

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

9

Stages of investment
Debt
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceAppsPersonal FinanceBankingLending

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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Analytics

Total investments
36
Lead investments
3
Exits
9
Rounds per year
0.58
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (20)
  • FinTech (17)
  • Lending (10)
  • Finance (8)
  • Banking (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (27)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Argentina (5)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
824M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.82
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aura Financial 01 Jul 2014 Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Banking, Lending Early Stage Venture 17M United States, California, San Francisco
KINDLER 30 Apr 2020 Internet, Information Technology, Information Services Early Stage Venture Minato, Japan
Ualá 03 Oct 2018 Financial Services, FinTech, Apps, Personal Finance, Banking Early Stage Venture 34M Argentina, Entre Ríos Province

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