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SAM Private Equity

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 9
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 4
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Hardware
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$12M15 Jan 2014 Massachusetts, United States

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$15M06 Jun 2011 Massachusetts, United States

Advanced BioNutrition

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pet
$7M14 Jan 2005 Columbia, Maryland, United States

Iomai Corporation

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$54M03 Jan 2003 Maryland, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 17M
Peak activity year 2003
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$12M15 Jan 2014 Massachusetts, United States

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$15M06 Jun 2011 Massachusetts, United States

Advanced BioNutrition

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pet
$7M14 Jan 2005 Columbia, Maryland, United States

Iomai Corporation

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$54M03 Jan 2003 Maryland, United States
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