Pritzker Group Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

239

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

155

Rounds per year

8.54

Lead investments

24

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

50

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSMobile AppsEnterprise Software

Summary

Pritzker Group Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Food and Beverage. 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 Outcome Health, FleetMatics, Casper.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. When the investment is from Pritzker Group Venture Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Pritzker Group Venture Capital performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Pritzker Group Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Techstars Chicago (Formerly Excelerate Labs), I2A Fund, Lerer Hippeau. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Origin Ventures, MATH Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MATH Venture Partners, HPA, OCA Ventures.

This organization was formed by J.B. Pritzker. The overall number of key employees were 14.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EcommerceB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Series A
Geo focus
United States
Check size
500K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
239
Lead investments
24
Exits
50
Rounds per year
8.54
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Software (74)
  • SaaS (44)
  • E-Commerce (35)
  • Enterprise Software (34)
  • Internet (34)
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Investments by region
  • United States (236)
  • Canada (1)
  • Israel (1)
  • Norway (1)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
7
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
170M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
4.40
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fuel Me 01 Aug 2023 Cloud Management, Trading Platform, Oil and Gas, Fuel Early Stage Venture 18M United States, Illinois, Elmhurst
REACH 24 Mar 2022 Software, Financial Services, Information Services, Finance, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Business Development, Customer Service, Business Information Systems, Identity Management, Digital Signage Early Stage Venture 7M United States, California, San Francisco

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