Square 1 Bank

Total investments

113

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

105

Rounds per year

5.95

Lead investments

22

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

53

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsAdvertising

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
113
Lead investments
22
Exits
53
Rounds per year
5.95
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (36)
  • Software (34)
  • Biotechnology (30)
  • SaaS (21)
  • Enterprise Software (19)
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Investments by region
  • United States (111)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
66M
Group Appearance index
0.36
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
1.88
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bardy Diagnostics 05 Jan 2017 Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical Device, Medical Early Stage Venture 0 United States, Washington, Seattle
Maker Media 09 Jun 2015 E-Commerce, Events, DIY Early Stage Venture 5M United States, California

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