SAM Private Equity

Total investments

11

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

9

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInfrastructureHealth CareManufacturingHardwareTelecommunicationsEnergyRenewable EnergyIndustrialPlastics and Rubber Manufacturing

Summary

The company was established in Europe in Switzerland. The main department of described VC is located in the Zu00fcrich.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SAM Private Equity, startups are often financed by Amadeus Capital Partners, ICV, Capricorn Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ICV, Capricorn Venture Partners, BASF Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Masdar Capital, BASF Venture Capital, Arax Capital Partners.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Manufacturing, Renewable Energy. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FRX Polymers, Nujira, Greengate Power. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no 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.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this SAM Private Equity works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
11
Lead investments
2
Exits
4
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (3)
  • Renewable Energy (3)
  • Energy (3)
  • Manufacturing (3)
  • Hardware (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2003

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
47M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
2.57

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
FRX Polymers 06 Jun 2011 Manufacturing, Industrial, Advanced Materials, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing Early Stage Venture 15M United States, Massachusetts

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