Rand Capital

Total investments

45

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

27

Rounds per year

0.82

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

11

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalSocial Media

Summary

Rand Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1969. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Buffalo. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Rand Capital, startups are often financed by Cayuga Venture Fund, Z80 Labs Technology Incubator, Advantage Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cayuga Venture Fund, Advantage Capital, Z80 Labs Technology Incubator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cayuga Venture Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Advantage Capital.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Rand Capital performs on 17 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Health Diagnostics, Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ACV, Rheonix, Empire Genomics

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
45
Lead investments
10
Exits
11
Rounds per year
0.82
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • Health Care (9)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • Social Media (6)
  • Analytics (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
84M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.56

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Centivo 07 Dec 2020 Information Technology, Health Care, Medical Early Stage Venture 34M United States, New York, New York
CrowdBouncer 05 Feb 2014 Internet, Software, Security, Data Integration Early Stage Venture 437K United States, New York, Buffalo
Xsust 01 Jan 2018 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Product Management, CleanTech Seed United States, California, Orange

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