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Providence Equity Partners

Founders Jonathan Nelson

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Total investments 59
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$65M
Portfolio companies 48
Rounds per year 1.74
Lead investments 26
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 26
Key employees 11
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Marketing
  • Content
Summary

Providence Equity Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1989. The main department of described VC is located in the Providence. The venture was found in North America in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Service Industry, Gaming. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline iQiyi, Hulu, Skybox Security For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Providence Equity Partners, startups are often financed by Brown Brothers Harriman, True Ventures, TDF Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Susquehanna Growth Equity, Providence Strategic Growth, First Union Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Providence Strategic Growth, Baidu, OVP Venture Partners.

The current fund was established by Jonathan Nelson. The overall number of key employees were 11.

This Providence Equity Partners works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. When the investment is from Providence Equity Partners the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dongchi

Consumer Goods
Fitness
Food and Beverage
$1M23 Aug 2022 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

LogDNA

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Management Information Systems
$25M09 Jul 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

LogDNA

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Management Information Systems
$25M11 Dec 2018 Mountain View, California, United States

Conversica

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Sales Automation
Software
Virtual Assistant
18 Aug 2018 California, United States

CENTRL Inc

Computer
Software
10 Nov 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

SnapApp

B2B
Content Creators
Content Marketing
Lead Generation
Marketing
Software
$12M03 Nov 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

CENTRL Inc

Computer
Software
10 Aug 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

GlobalTranz

Automotive
Logistics
Public Transportation
Shipping Broker
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$40M06 Sep 2014 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

OpenSky

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Shopping
$30M01 Oct 2011 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 59
Average round size 65M
Rounds per year 1.74
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 26
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 26
Group Appearance index 0.63

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dongchi

Consumer Goods
Fitness
Food and Beverage
$1M23 Aug 2022 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

LogDNA

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Management Information Systems
$25M09 Jul 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

LogDNA

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Management Information Systems
$25M11 Dec 2018 Mountain View, California, United States

Conversica

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Sales Automation
Software
Virtual Assistant
18 Aug 2018 California, United States

CENTRL Inc

Computer
Software
10 Nov 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

SnapApp

B2B
Content Creators
Content Marketing
Lead Generation
Marketing
Software
$12M03 Nov 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

CENTRL Inc

Computer
Software
10 Aug 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

GlobalTranz

Automotive
Logistics
Public Transportation
Shipping Broker
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$40M06 Sep 2014 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

OpenSky

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Shopping
$30M01 Oct 2011 New York, New York, United States
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