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Mesirow Financial

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.29
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.52
Exits 6
Key employees 26
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Data Center
  • Video
  • Virtual Desktop
  • Data Storage
Summary

In 1937 was created Mesirow Financial, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Chicago. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

We also calculated 25 valuable employees in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Mesirow Financial works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2006. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

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 Energy, Software. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Grubhub, Pivot3, Adam Aircraft. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Mesirow Financial, startups are often financed by InterWest Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silver Creek Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lightspeed Venture Partners, InterWest Partners, DCM Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by InterWest Partners, Silver Creek Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Serious Energy

Building Material
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Green Building
Manufacturing
Natural Resources
$60M22 Sep 2009 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pivot3

Data Center
Data Storage
Software
Video
Virtual Desktop
$24M28 Jan 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

Inteliquent

Communications Infrastructure
IaaS
PaaS
Telecommunications
VoIP
Wireless
$12M03 Mar 2006 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Business Development
Online Portals
Web Browsers
$11M06 Sep 2000 Illinois, United States

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Total investments 25
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.29
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.52
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Serious Energy

Building Material
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Green Building
Manufacturing
Natural Resources
$60M22 Sep 2009 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pivot3

Data Center
Data Storage
Software
Video
Virtual Desktop
$24M28 Jan 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

Inteliquent

Communications Infrastructure
IaaS
PaaS
Telecommunications
VoIP
Wireless
$12M03 Mar 2006 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Business Development
Online Portals
Web Browsers
$11M06 Sep 2000 Illinois, United States
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