S.A.C. Capital Advisors
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28M
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0.17
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- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
S.A.C. Capital Advisors appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1992. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Stamford. The company was established in North America in United States.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. Comparing to the other companies, this S.A.C. Capital Advisors performs on 11 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Derivix, Net2Wireless, Color Kinetics, Incorporated. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 fund investment industries, there are Analytics, Software.
This organization was formed by Steven A. Cohen.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6 participants. Despite the S.A.C. Capital Advisors, startups are often financed by Benchmark, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Susquehanna Growth Equity. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ThinkEquity Partners, The McClatchy Company, Tailwind Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by US Department of Energy, The Skoll Foundation, The Carlyle Group.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 5
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Internet (2)
- Solar (1)
- Nanotechnology (1)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Lighting (1) Show 11 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (4)
- Israel (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 168M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.80
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 13.18
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| StreamSearch.LIVE | 07 Mar 2000 | Internet, Video, Media and Entertainment, Audio | Late Stage Venture | 20M | United States, Florida, Tampa |
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