Passport Capital

Total investments

27

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

1.17

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

11

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechPaymentsBig DataDigital MarketingEnergyDigital MediaCoupons

Summary

In 2000 was created Passport Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Passport Capital, startups are often financed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Yahoo, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Capricorn Investment Group, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Steven Boal. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, FTV Capital, SK Group.

The important activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Passport Capital works on 16 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Solar. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quotient Technology, NEOS GeoSolutions, Apartment List. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The current fund was established by John Burbank. We also calculated 11 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
7
Exits
11
Rounds per year
1.17
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Internet (7)
  • FinTech (5)
  • Energy (4)
  • Payments (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (27)
Peak activity year
2011
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
197M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.16

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Range Fuels 01 Apr 2008 CleanTech, Energy, Clean Energy Early Stage Venture 100M United States, Colorado
Solana 30 Jul 2019 Internet, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Virtual Currency Seed United States, California, San Francisco

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