Smithfield Trust

Total investments

3

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.12

Lead investments

1

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Energy StorageSoftwareMedical DeviceMarketingEventsTherapeuticsHardwareElectronicsTicketingLighting

Summary

Smithfield Trust appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1996. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Pittsburgh.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Smithfield Trust, startups are often financed by Eagle Ventures, Birchmere Ventures, MAG Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Innovation Works, Woodland Partners, West Capital Advisors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Firelake Capital Management, Draper Triangle, Birchmere Ventures.

The top activity for fund was in 2013. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This Smithfield Trust works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Plextronics, ALung Technologies, ShowClix Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 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 has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Ticketing, Software.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
3
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Software (1)
  • Ticketing (1)
  • Events (1)
  • Marketing (1)
  • Lighting (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2011

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
12

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ALung Technologies 11 Sep 2013 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 15M United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

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