SC Launch, Inc.

Status

Active

Location

Columbia, United States

Total investments

110

Average round size

524K

Portfolio companies

93

Rounds per year

2.68

Lead investments

43

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Grant
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInfrastructureReal EstateSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceutical

Summary

South Carolina Research Authority is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2006. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Columbia. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the South Carolina Research Authority, startups are often financed by VentureSouth, Windspeed Ventures, Sunbridge Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Windspeed Ventures, Upstate Carolina Angel Network, Sunbridge Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VentureSouth, Windspeed Ventures, Upstate Carolina Angel Network.

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 successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Computer. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline GreenWizard, ENGAGE Talent, Heatworks Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this South Carolina Research Authority performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2010. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Analytics

Total investments
110
Lead investments
43
Exits
5
Rounds per year
2.68
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (28)
  • Health Care (14)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Biotechnology (11)
  • Pharmaceutical (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (104)
  • Canada (1)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2023
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
12M
Group Appearance index
0.09
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
2.67

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Jumpcut Media 10 Jun 2021 Media and Entertainment, Film, TV Seed United States, California, Los Angeles
Land Intelligence 01 Oct 2019 Software, PaaS, Real Estate Investment, Commercial Real Estate, IaaS, Property Development Seed 535K United States, South Carolina, Columbia
REsimplifi 10 Jul 2018 Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate Seed 1M United States, South Carolina, Columbia

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