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Spencer Trask & Co.

Founders Kevin Kimberlin

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 0.52
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 5
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
  • Health Care
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Precyse Technologies

Internet
Internet of Things
Mobile
SaaS
Wireless
$11M17 Aug 2010 United States, " United States"}

WeAre.Us

Advertising
Health Care
Information Technology
Internet
Social Media
$50K01 Aug 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

InnoCentive

Collaboration
Crowdsourcing
Enterprise Software
Software
$6M07 May 2008 Massachusetts, United States

HyperActive Technologies

Hospitality
Restaurants
Software
$6M27 May 2006 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

InnoCentive

Collaboration
Crowdsourcing
Enterprise Software
Software
$9M01 Feb 2006 Massachusetts, United States

Multispectral Imaging

Manufacturing
$8M06 Dec 2005 New Jersey, United States

Local Matters

Local
Marketing
Real Estate
Search Engine
SEM
$15M31 May 2005 United States, Denver

Jedai Networks

Communication Hardware
Network Hardware
Telecommunications
$10M18 Apr 2003 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Data Critical Corporation

Apps
Information Technology
Mobile
$3M08 Nov 1996 Washington, United States

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Total investments 16
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.52
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.56

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Precyse Technologies

Internet
Internet of Things
Mobile
SaaS
Wireless
$11M17 Aug 2010 United States, " United States"}

WeAre.Us

Advertising
Health Care
Information Technology
Internet
Social Media
$50K01 Aug 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

InnoCentive

Collaboration
Crowdsourcing
Enterprise Software
Software
$6M07 May 2008 Massachusetts, United States

HyperActive Technologies

Hospitality
Restaurants
Software
$6M27 May 2006 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

InnoCentive

Collaboration
Crowdsourcing
Enterprise Software
Software
$9M01 Feb 2006 Massachusetts, United States

Multispectral Imaging

Manufacturing
$8M06 Dec 2005 New Jersey, United States

Local Matters

Local
Marketing
Real Estate
Search Engine
SEM
$15M31 May 2005 United States, Denver

Jedai Networks

Communication Hardware
Network Hardware
Telecommunications
$10M18 Apr 2003 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Data Critical Corporation

Apps
Information Technology
Mobile
$3M08 Nov 1996 Washington, United States
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