Longitude Capital

Summary

Longitude Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Diagnostics, Therapeutics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alphaeon, CardioDx, SutroVax. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Longitude Capital, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, The Carlyle Group, TVM Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RA Capital Management, OrbiMed, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RA Capital Management, Rock Springs Capital, Kleiner Perkins.

The current fund was established by Marc Galletti, Patrick Enright. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Longitude Capital works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Longitude Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.