Piper Jaffray

Total investments

50

Average round size

22M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

0.39

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

22

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareHealth CareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalData IntegrationProfessional ServicesClinical Trials

Summary

Piper Jaffray appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1895. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Minneapolis.

The current fund was established by Buzz Benson.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Piper Jaffray, startups are often financed by Walden Venture Capital, Village Ventures, Selby Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are U.S. Bancorp, River Cities Capital Funds, GGV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DeNovo Ventures, Versant Ventures, SightLine Partners.

Opposing the other organizations, this Piper Jaffray works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. When the investment is from Piper Jaffray the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pandora, Living Proof, Athersys. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Service Industry. 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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
50
Lead investments
6
Exits
22
Rounds per year
0.39
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (19)
  • Biotechnology (14)
  • Internet (11)
  • Medical (10)
  • Medical Device (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (47)
  • Canada (1)
  • Norway (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
121M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
2.86
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Chameleon Systems 05 Feb 2001 Semiconductor, Network Hardware Late Stage Venture 47M United States, California, San Jose
GetHenry 01 Jul 2019 Transportation, Software, Electric Vehicle Seed 177K Berlin, Germany
PerfectServe 02 Feb 2012 Mobile, Health Care, Hospital, Medical Late Stage Venture 10M United States, Tennessee, Knoxville

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