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Lime Rock Partners

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$68M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.83
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 7
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Oil and Gas
  • Renewable Energy
  • Software
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1998 was created Lime Rock Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Westport.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Lime Rock Partners, startups are often financed by Next47, Kinetic Ventures, Nth Power. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Next47, Kinetic Ventures, Wells Fargo Capital Finance. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nth Power, Next47, Kinetic Ventures.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Capstone II, Senscient, TerraSpark Geosciences. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Service Industry, Manufacturing. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Lime Rock Partners performs on 2 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Senscient

Electronics
Manufacturing
12 Jul 2011 Texas, United States

SmartSynch

Energy
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
Software
Web Hosting
Wireless
$12M17 Oct 2005 Jackson, Mississippi, United States

SmartSynch

Energy
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
Software
Web Hosting
Wireless
$8M22 Jun 2000 Jackson, Mississippi, United States

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Total investments 19
Average round size 68M
Rounds per year 0.83
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.63

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Senscient

Electronics
Manufacturing
12 Jul 2011 Texas, United States

SmartSynch

Energy
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
Software
Web Hosting
Wireless
$12M17 Oct 2005 Jackson, Mississippi, United States

SmartSynch

Energy
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
Software
Web Hosting
Wireless
$8M22 Jun 2000 Jackson, Mississippi, United States
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