Lime Rock Partners

Total investments

19

Average round size

68M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

0.83

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergyWirelessWeb HostingOil and GasEnergy Management

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
4
Exits
7
Rounds per year
0.83
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Energy (11)
  • Oil and Gas (10)
  • Renewable Energy (5)
  • Software (4)
  • Information Technology (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
  • United Arab Emirates (1)
  • Canada (2)
  • United Kingdom (3)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
176M
Group Appearance index
0.63
Avg. company exit year
48
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SmartSynch 17 Oct 2005 Software, Information Technology, Energy, Renewable Energy, Wireless, Web Hosting Late Stage Venture 12M United States, Mississippi, Jackson

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