Shumway Capital

Total investments

11

Average round size

45M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.92

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.55

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyDrug DiscoveryMachine LearningHealth CareMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBusiness DevelopmentContent DiscoveryClinical Trials

Summary

Shumway Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Greenwich.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Finch Therapeutics Group, Vedanta Biosciences, Artsy. 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 no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Banking, Pharmaceutical. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Shumway Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Shumway Capital, startups are often financed by Thrive Capital, ZhenFund, Willett Advisors LLC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Avenir Growth Capital, Willett Advisors LLC, Noro-Moseley Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Symbiosis, Noro-Moseley Partners, Hatteras Venture Partners.

The fund was created by Chris Shumway. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
11
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.92
Follow on index
0.55
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (9)
  • Medical (6)
  • Pharmaceutical (4)
  • Health Care (4)
  • Clinical Trials (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
485M
Group Appearance index
0.82

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Elligo Health Research 20 Mar 2018 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 16M United States, Texas, Austin

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