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Principia SGR

Founders Pierluigi Paracchi

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Total investments 52
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 41
Rounds per year 2.48
Lead investments 18
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 5
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • Biopharma
  • Life Science
Summary

The company was established in Europe in Italy. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Milan.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Principia SGR, startups are often financed by Atlante Seeds, Seventure Partners, Merifin Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are dPixel, Atlante Seeds, Antares Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Merifin Capital, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, 360 Capital Partners.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 Health Care, Shopping. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Moneyfarm, ENTEROME Bioscience, ALTILIA. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Italy.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from Principia SGR the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2012. Comparing to the other companies, this Principia SGR performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The current fund was established by Pierluigi Paracchi. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

WISE

Hardware
Software
$17M01 Oct 2020 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

COMPASS Pathways

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Personal Health
Wellness
$34M03 Oct 2018 England

WISE

Hardware
Software
$7M25 May 2017 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

AnaBios

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceuticals
$10M27 Dec 2016 San Diego, California, United States

Pedius

Mobile
Telecommunications
$1M01 Dec 2016 Lazio

Silk Biomaterials

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$8M21 Apr 2016 Lombardy

DoveConviene

Printing
Shopping
$11M25 Sep 2015 Sardinia

WISE

Hardware
Software
$3M09 Jun 2015 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Tacatì

E-Commerce
Grocery
Shopping
$1M02 Sep 2013 Italy, Piemont

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Total investments 52
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 2.48
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

WISE

Hardware
Software
$17M01 Oct 2020 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

COMPASS Pathways

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Personal Health
Wellness
$34M03 Oct 2018 England

WISE

Hardware
Software
$7M25 May 2017 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

AnaBios

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceuticals
$10M27 Dec 2016 San Diego, California, United States

Pedius

Mobile
Telecommunications
$1M01 Dec 2016 Lazio

Silk Biomaterials

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$8M21 Apr 2016 Lombardy

DoveConviene

Printing
Shopping
$11M25 Sep 2015 Sardinia

WISE

Hardware
Software
$3M09 Jun 2015 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Tacatì

E-Commerce
Grocery
Shopping
$1M02 Sep 2013 Italy, Piemont
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