Permira

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

61

Average round size

264M

Portfolio companies

51

Rounds per year

1.56

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyFinanceSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Permira is the famous VC, which was founded in 1985. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Frankfurt.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Permira, startups are often financed by TCV, Marissa Mayer, Jeremy Stoppelman. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Victor Jacobsson, Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, TCV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Commonwealth Bank of Australia, TCV, Snoop Dogg.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 62 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Permira performs on 16 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from Permira is more than 1 billion dollars.

Besides them, we counted 33 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 16-20 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no 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 Klarna, LegalZoom, Minted. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Chemical, Food and Beverage.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailHealthcare
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
61
Lead investments
18
Exits
10
Rounds per year
1.56
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (18)
  • E-Commerce (14)
  • Internet (11)
  • Analytics (9)
  • Finance (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (28)
  • Sweden (4)
  • China (2)
  • Norway (1)
  • Germany (3)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
13
Number of Decacorns
15
Number of Minotaurs
9

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.54
Avg. company exit year
23
Avg. multiplicator
0.63
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SonarSource 26 Apr 2022 Software, Open Source Early Stage Venture 412M Switzerland, Geneva, Geneva

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