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Safeguard Scientifics

Founders Daniel M. Skovronsky Warren Musser

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Total investments 129
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 84
Rounds per year 1.82
Lead investments 47
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 36
Key employees 14
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Medical
  • Biotechnology
  • SaaS
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Moxe Health

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Wellness
$30M01 Jun 2022 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Trice Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
$18M14 Jan 2019 Pennsylvania, United States

Zipnosis

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
mHealth
$3M17 Aug 2018 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

meQuilibrium

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Internet
$7M14 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Prognos Health

Analytics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Software
$20M27 Nov 2017 New York, New York, United States

QuanticMind

Advertising
Analytics
Digital Marketing
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$20M05 Oct 2017 Redwood City, California, United States

Trice Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
$19M06 Jun 2017 Pennsylvania, United States

T-REX

Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Renewable Energy
SaaS
$10M24 May 2017 New York, New York, United States

CloudMine

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Information Technology
Mobile
$7M14 Apr 2017 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Total investments 129
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 1.82
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 47
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 36
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Moxe Health

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Wellness
$30M01 Jun 2022 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Trice Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
$18M14 Jan 2019 Pennsylvania, United States

Zipnosis

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
mHealth
$3M17 Aug 2018 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

meQuilibrium

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Internet
$7M14 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Prognos Health

Analytics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Software
$20M27 Nov 2017 New York, New York, United States

QuanticMind

Advertising
Analytics
Digital Marketing
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$20M05 Oct 2017 Redwood City, California, United States

Trice Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
$19M06 Jun 2017 Pennsylvania, United States

T-REX

Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Renewable Energy
SaaS
$10M24 May 2017 New York, New York, United States

CloudMine

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Information Technology
Mobile
$7M14 Apr 2017 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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