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Special Situations Funds

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$40M
Portfolio companies 11
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 8
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Medical Device
  • Therapeutics
  • Biopharma
  • Medical
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Special Situations Funds, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, Village Ventures, Toppan Printing. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are venBio Partners, Venrock, Toppan Printing. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Toronto Dominion Bank Group, Penguin Random House.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Digital Guardian, Audible, IZEA We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biopharma, Security. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2013. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Special Situations Funds performs on 42 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Electronics
Hardware
Manufacturing
$16M08 Oct 2007 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cyber Security
Data Visualization
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
SaaS
Security
Software
$7M01 Sep 2004 Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 40M
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.58

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Electronics
Hardware
Manufacturing
$16M08 Oct 2007 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cyber Security
Data Visualization
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
SaaS
Security
Software
$7M01 Sep 2004 Massachusetts, United States
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