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Pequot Capital

Founders Arthur Samberg Erik Jansen Lawrence Lenihan

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Total investments 153
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 89
Rounds per year 4.37
Lead investments 40
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 56
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical Device
Summary

Pequot Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1988. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Westport.

The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. This Pequot Capital works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Pequot Capital the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Pequot Capital, startups are often financed by Versant Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Atlas Venture. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Versant Ventures, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Versant Ventures, Benchmark, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).

The current fund was established by Arthur Samberg, Erik Jansen, Lawrence Lenihan. The overall number of key employees were 5.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Internet. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Accruent, Upwork, AcuFocus. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sadra Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
$30M22 May 2009 California, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$28M28 Oct 2008 Lower Southampton Township, Pennsylvania, United States

Range Fuels

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
$28M21 Apr 2008 Colorado, United States

Stemline Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$12M09 Apr 2008 New York, New York, United States

Horizon Pharma

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$30M23 Jul 2007 Illinois, United States

Ablation Frontiers

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$21M17 Jul 2007 Carlsbad, California, United States

Clickable

Advertising
Automation/Workflow Software
Facebook
Search Engine
Social Media Advertising
Software
$3M01 Jul 2007 New York, New York, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$24M16 Apr 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

MTM Technologies

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Virtual Desktop
$3M13 Apr 2007 Stamford, Connecticut, United States

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Total investments 153
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 4.37
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 40
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 56
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sadra Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
$30M22 May 2009 California, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$28M28 Oct 2008 Lower Southampton Township, Pennsylvania, United States

Range Fuels

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
$28M21 Apr 2008 Colorado, United States

Stemline Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$12M09 Apr 2008 New York, New York, United States

Horizon Pharma

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$30M23 Jul 2007 Illinois, United States

Ablation Frontiers

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$21M17 Jul 2007 Carlsbad, California, United States

Clickable

Advertising
Automation/Workflow Software
Facebook
Search Engine
Social Media Advertising
Software
$3M01 Jul 2007 New York, New York, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$24M16 Apr 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

MTM Technologies

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Virtual Desktop
$3M13 Apr 2007 Stamford, Connecticut, United States
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