North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Wellesley, United States

Total investments

424

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

184

Rounds per year

14.13

Lead investments

70

Follow on index

0.57

Exits

104

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingHardwareTelecommunications

Summary

In 1994 was created North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Wellesley.

This organization was formed by Bill Geary, Doug Kingsley, Ed Anderson, Mike Pehl, Richard D'Amore. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Opposing the other organizations, this North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Enterprise Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Starent Networks, Demandware, Broadband Access Systems

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, startups are often financed by CRV, New Enterprise Associates, Battery Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Borealis Ventures, ABS Ventures, Matrix Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Flybridge Capital Partners, Atlas Venture.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Developer ToolsCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/RetailAI/Big DataAnalytics

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
424
Lead investments
70
Exits
104
Rounds per year
14.13
Follow on index
0.57
Investments by industry
  • Software (145)
  • Enterprise Software (110)
  • SaaS (64)
  • Mobile (58)
  • Information Technology (52)
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Investments by region
  • United States (402)
  • Netherlands (4)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Israel (4)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2010
Number of Unicorns
10
Number of Decacorns
10
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
158M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.61
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
LaunchPad Recruits 25 Apr 2016 Business/Productivity Software, Software, Human Resources, Recruiting, Video, Skill Assessment Early Stage Venture 2M United Kingdom, London, England
SDL Enterprise Technologies 21 Mar 2000 Software, Information Technology, Information Services, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications Early Stage Venture 15M United States, Massachusetts
Springleaf Therapeutics 30 Nov 2009 Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 8M United States, Massachusetts, Boston

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