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SightLine Partners

Founders Heath Lukatch

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 1.22
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 5
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Medical Device
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Health Diagnostics
Summary

In 2004 was created SightLine Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Minneapolis. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, Life Science. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CVRx, EndoGastric Solutions, Earlens Corporation. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 was created by Heath Lukatch. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This SightLine Partners works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the SightLine Partners, startups are often financed by QuestMark Partners, Piper Jaffray, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Affinity Capital Management, Split Rock Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Perceptive Advisors, Morgenthaler Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Magnolia Medical Technologies

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$20M30 Jan 2019 Seattle, Washington, United States

Earlens Corporation

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$73M05 Jun 2017 California, United States

Monteris Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$26M01 Jun 2017 Minnesota, United States

Vapotherm

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$20M13 Jul 2015 New Hampshire, United States

Conventus Orthopaedics

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$24M02 Dec 2014 Minnesota, United States

Anulex Technologies

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$20M25 Jul 2006 Minnesota, United States

Verax Biomedical

Biotechnology
Diagnostic Equipment
Health Care
Medical
$15M14 Oct 2005 Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 22
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 1.22
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Magnolia Medical Technologies

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$20M30 Jan 2019 Seattle, Washington, United States

Earlens Corporation

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$73M05 Jun 2017 California, United States

Monteris Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$26M01 Jun 2017 Minnesota, United States

Vapotherm

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$20M13 Jul 2015 New Hampshire, United States

Conventus Orthopaedics

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$24M02 Dec 2014 Minnesota, United States

Anulex Technologies

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$20M25 Jul 2006 Minnesota, United States

Verax Biomedical

Biotechnology
Diagnostic Equipment
Health Care
Medical
$15M14 Oct 2005 Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
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