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Square 1 Bank

Founders Chris Woolley Judith Erwin Susan Casey

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Total investments 113
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 105
Rounds per year 5.95
Lead investments 22
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 53
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Square 1 Bank appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2005. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Durham.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Square 1 Bank, startups are often financed by Sante Ventures, InterWest Partners, Domain Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pacific Western Bank, Oxford Finance LLC, Baird Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RRE Ventures, Domain Associates, Tribeca Venture Partners.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Square 1 Bank works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Advertising. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AvidXchange, OnDeck, Alert Logic. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Chris Woolley, Judith Erwin, Susan Casey.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AllyO

Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Recruiting
SaaS
$16M30 Nov 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States

ViralGains

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Video
$13M21 Sep 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Bardy Diagnostics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
05 Jan 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Maker Media

DIY
E-Commerce
Events
$5M09 Jun 2015 California, United States

Symbiomix Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$41M06 May 2015 Newark, New Jersey, United States

Data Center
Security
Software
$24M18 Sep 2014 Fremont, California, United States

Sittercity

Child Care
Consumer
Internet
$13M18 Nov 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Razorsight

Analytics
Automotive
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$12M22 Jul 2011 Virginia, United States

Government
Mobile
Security
Software
$14M14 Nov 2008 Virginia, United States

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Total investments 113
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 5.95
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 53
Group Appearance index 0.36

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AllyO

Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Recruiting
SaaS
$16M30 Nov 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States

ViralGains

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Video
$13M21 Sep 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Bardy Diagnostics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
05 Jan 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Maker Media

DIY
E-Commerce
Events
$5M09 Jun 2015 California, United States

Symbiomix Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$41M06 May 2015 Newark, New Jersey, United States

Data Center
Security
Software
$24M18 Sep 2014 Fremont, California, United States

Sittercity

Child Care
Consumer
Internet
$13M18 Nov 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Razorsight

Analytics
Automotive
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$12M22 Jul 2011 Virginia, United States

Government
Mobile
Security
Software
$14M14 Nov 2008 Virginia, United States
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