Safeguard Scientifics

Summary

In 1953 was created Safeguard Scientifics, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Radnor.

The current fund was established by Warren Musser. The overall number of key employees were 7.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Safeguard Scientifics, startups are often financed by Social Capital, BioAdvance, MentorTech Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Novitas Capital, Social Capital, BioAdvance. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Core Capital Partners, UOB Venture, Social Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MediaMath, E-Duction, Apprenda. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical Device, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite 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.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. Comparing to the other companies, this Safeguard Scientifics performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Safeguard Scientifics the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.