Prospect Capital Management L.P.

Total investments

82

Average round size

38M

Portfolio companies

75

Rounds per year

2.41

Lead investments

66

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

51

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesConsumer GoodsRetailInformation TechnologyHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingAdvertisingTelecommunications

Summary

Prospect Capital Management L.P. is the famous VC, which was founded in 1988. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. Opposing the other organizations, this Prospect Capital Management L.P. works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Medical Device. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Comet Systems, InfoRocket.com, Biospect

We also calculated 15 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Prospect Capital Management L.P., startups are often financed by Prospect Venture Partners, Three Arch Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Versant Ventures, Venrock. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Prospect Venture Partners, Three Arch Partners, New Leaf Venture Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
82
Lead investments
66
Exits
51
Rounds per year
2.41
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (14)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Enterprise Software (7)
  • Software (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (77)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Philippines (1)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
34
Avg. valuation at time of investment
240M
Group Appearance index
0.11
Avg. company exit year
23
Avg. multiplicator
4.92
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Biospect 21 Oct 2003 Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science Early Stage Venture 27M United States, California, South San Francisco
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