Madison Dearborn Partners
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55M
51
1.88
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0.15
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Summary
Madison Dearborn Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1992. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.
The average startup value when the investment from Madison Dearborn Partners is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2005. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Madison Dearborn Partners works on 27 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PayPal, Metro by T-Mobile, QuickPlay Media. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Infrastructure, Internet. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.
The current fund was established by Gary Little, James Perry. The overall number of key employees were 13.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Madison Dearborn Partners, startups are often financed by Relay Ventures, General Catalyst, Ventures West. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Battery Ventures, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Goldman Sachs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yasuda Enterprise Development, Technology Partners, Sprout Group.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 60
- Lead investments
- 12
- Exits
- 29
- Rounds per year
- 1.88
- Follow on index
- 0.15
- Investments by industry
- Enterprise Software (14)
- Software (12)
- Information Technology (9)
- Telecommunications (7)
- Web Hosting (6) Show 76 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (51)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Canada (4)
- Ireland (1)
- Australia (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
- Number of Unicorns
- 4
- Number of Decacorns
- 4
- Number of Minotaurs
- 3
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 23
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.47
- Avg. company exit year
- 14
- Avg. multiplicator
- 6.16
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iExplore | 27 Apr 2000 | Travel, Tourism, Web Hosting | Early Stage Venture | 12M | United States, Illinois, Chicago |
| 21 Aug 2019 | Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Analytics, Information Technology, Mobile, Big Data, Credit | Late Stage Venture | 110M | United States, Santa Monica | |
| SpiderOak | 12 Jan 2023 | Enterprise Software, Cyber Security, Blockchain, Open Source | Late Stage Venture | 16M | United States, Missouri, Kansas City |
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