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North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity

Founders Bill Geary Doug Kingsley Ed Anderson Karen Keaney Mike Pehl Richard D'Amore

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Total investments 424
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 184
Rounds per year 14.62
Lead investments 70
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.57
Exits 104
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lyra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
Wellness
$30M29 Jan 2020 Massachusetts, United States

Lyra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
Wellness
$29M26 Sep 2018 Massachusetts, United States

Cool Planet

Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$20M25 Jul 2018 Colorado, United States

Markforged

3D Printing
3D Technology
Hardware
Manufacturing
Robotics
$30M01 Nov 2017 Massachusetts, United States

Lucid

Advertising
Analytics
Enterprise Software
$60M10 Apr 2017 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Cool Planet

Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$19M23 Mar 2017 Colorado, United States

Ravel Law

Analytics
Legal
Search Engine
$6M15 Sep 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Markforged

3D Printing
3D Technology
Hardware
Manufacturing
Robotics
$15M12 Feb 2016 Massachusetts, United States

OutSystems

Data Integration
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$55M02 Feb 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 424
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 14.62
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 70
Follow on index 0.57
Exits 104
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lyra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
Wellness
$30M29 Jan 2020 Massachusetts, United States

Lyra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
Wellness
$29M26 Sep 2018 Massachusetts, United States

Cool Planet

Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$20M25 Jul 2018 Colorado, United States

Markforged

3D Printing
3D Technology
Hardware
Manufacturing
Robotics
$30M01 Nov 2017 Massachusetts, United States

Lucid

Advertising
Analytics
Enterprise Software
$60M10 Apr 2017 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Cool Planet

Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$19M23 Mar 2017 Colorado, United States

Ravel Law

Analytics
Legal
Search Engine
$6M15 Sep 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Markforged

3D Printing
3D Technology
Hardware
Manufacturing
Robotics
$15M12 Feb 2016 Massachusetts, United States

OutSystems

Data Integration
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$55M02 Feb 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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