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Piper Jaffray

Founders Buzz Benson

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Total investments 50
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 0.39
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 22
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Internet
  • Medical
  • Medical Device
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OrthoAccel Technologies

Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Manufacturing
Medical
$15M12 Jan 2017 Houston, Texas, United States

OrthoAccel Technologies

Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Manufacturing
Medical
$12M04 May 2016 Houston, Texas, United States

PerfectServe

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Mobile
$10M02 Feb 2012 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Living Proof

Beauty
Biotechnology
Cosmetics
$16M14 Mar 2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

FieldCentrix

Smart Home
$8M05 Apr 2004 Irvine, California, United States

Fluidigm

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Manufacturing
$34M12 Nov 2001 South San Francisco, California, United States

Chameleon Systems

Network Hardware
Semiconductor
$47M05 Feb 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Lara Networks

Information Technology
Innovation Management
Manufacturing
Product Design
$40M23 Oct 2000 San Jose, California, United States

PHT Corporation

Clinical Trials
Data Integration
Web Browsers
$8M25 Jul 2000 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 50
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.39
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 22
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OrthoAccel Technologies

Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Manufacturing
Medical
$15M12 Jan 2017 Houston, Texas, United States

OrthoAccel Technologies

Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Manufacturing
Medical
$12M04 May 2016 Houston, Texas, United States

PerfectServe

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Mobile
$10M02 Feb 2012 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Living Proof

Beauty
Biotechnology
Cosmetics
$16M14 Mar 2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

FieldCentrix

Smart Home
$8M05 Apr 2004 Irvine, California, United States

Fluidigm

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Manufacturing
$34M12 Nov 2001 South San Francisco, California, United States

Chameleon Systems

Network Hardware
Semiconductor
$47M05 Feb 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Lara Networks

Information Technology
Innovation Management
Manufacturing
Product Design
$40M23 Oct 2000 San Jose, California, United States

PHT Corporation

Clinical Trials
Data Integration
Web Browsers
$8M25 Jul 2000 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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