Sprout Group

Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Telecommunications. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Relypsa, Sirna Therapeutics.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Sprout Group, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Norwest Venture Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Delphi Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Norwest Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Delphi Ventures, Three Arch Partners, Kleiner Perkins.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 14 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. Opposing the other organizations, this Sprout Group works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2004. The average startup value when the investment from Sprout Group is 50-100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000.