Spencer Trask & Co.

Total investments

16

Average round size

22M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

0.52

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareMarketingTherapeuticsAdvertising

Summary

Spencer Trask & Co. appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1844. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Jedai Networks, HyperActive Technologies, Precyse Technologies. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Spencer Trask & Co., startups are often financed by Omidyar Network, Michael Brams, Lilly Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are YouWeb, Telcom Ventures, Sandler Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SternAegis Ventures, Spencer Trask Ventures, Inc, Sandler Capital.

We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The typical startup value when the investment from Spencer Trask & Co. is 10-50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Spencer Trask & Co. performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2006. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
8
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.52
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • Enterprise Software (3)
  • Information Technology (2)
  • Mobile (2)
  • Health Care (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
22M
Group Appearance index
0.56
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.42

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
HyperActive Technologies 27 May 2006 Software, Restaurants, Hospitality Early Stage Venture 6M United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

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