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Salem Partners

Founders John Dyett

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.56
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Alternative Medicine
  • Nanotechnology
Summary

In 1997 was created Salem Partners, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Los Angeles.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ZS Pharma, Onconano Medicine, Femasys We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Ethereum, Women's. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Salem Partners works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The current fund was established by John Dyett. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Salem Partners, startups are often financed by Partisan Management Group, Versant Ventures, Tech Coast Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RiverVest, Devon Park BioVentures, Alta Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sofinnova Investments, RiverVest, RA Capital Management.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fabric

Cloud Data Services
IT Management
Media and Entertainment
Software
01 Dec 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Fabric

Cloud Data Services
IT Management
Media and Entertainment
Software
01 Jun 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Onconano Medicine

Alternative Medicine
Biotechnology
Health Care
Nanotechnology
$23M09 Jul 2019 Dallas, Texas, United States

Lucid Sight

Blockchain
Computer
Cryptocurrency
Ethereum
Product Design
Software
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$6M02 Apr 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States

Rightsline

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
01 Jan 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States

Onconano Medicine

Alternative Medicine
Biotechnology
Health Care
Nanotechnology
$11M17 May 2018 Dallas, Texas, United States

Lucid Sight

Blockchain
Computer
Cryptocurrency
Ethereum
Product Design
Software
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$3M16 May 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Femasys

Biotechnology
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
Robotics
Women's
$10M29 Apr 2015 Georgia, United States

ZS Pharma

$46M23 Oct 2012 -

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Total investments 15
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 0.56
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.40
Group Appearance index 0.47

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fabric

Cloud Data Services
IT Management
Media and Entertainment
Software
01 Dec 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Fabric

Cloud Data Services
IT Management
Media and Entertainment
Software
01 Jun 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Onconano Medicine

Alternative Medicine
Biotechnology
Health Care
Nanotechnology
$23M09 Jul 2019 Dallas, Texas, United States

Lucid Sight

Blockchain
Computer
Cryptocurrency
Ethereum
Product Design
Software
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$6M02 Apr 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States

Rightsline

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
01 Jan 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States

Onconano Medicine

Alternative Medicine
Biotechnology
Health Care
Nanotechnology
$11M17 May 2018 Dallas, Texas, United States

Lucid Sight

Blockchain
Computer
Cryptocurrency
Ethereum
Product Design
Software
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$3M16 May 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Femasys

Biotechnology
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
Robotics
Women's
$10M29 Apr 2015 Georgia, United States

ZS Pharma

$46M23 Oct 2012 -
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