PAR Capital Management

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

31

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

0.94

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

9

Areas of investment
InternetTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyPaymentsInformation ServicesTravelWirelessTourismWeb Hosting

Summary

PAR Capital Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1990. The main department of described VC is located in the Boston. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the PAR Capital Management, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, Washington Research Foundation., Vocap Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Thayer Ventures, Valor Capital Group, Sutter Hill Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sutter Hill Ventures, Highgate Ventures, Draper Nexus Ventures.

When the investment is from PAR Capital Management the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this PAR Capital Management works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. 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. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chegg, SilverRail Technologies, Row44. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Wireless, Digital Entertainment.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
3
Exits
9
Rounds per year
0.94
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Travel (18)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Transportation (5)
  • Information Services (5)
  • Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (29)
  • United Kingdom (2)
Peak activity year
2008

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
61M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.45
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

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