St. Paul Venture Capital

Summary

In 1988 was created St. Paul Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Minneapolis.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Santarus, EBR Systems, Vendavo 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 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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Telecommunications, Infrastructure.

The current fund was established by Patrick Hopf. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the St. Paul Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Accel, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Windamere Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Prism Venture Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, DCM Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Accel, Prism Venture Management, DCM Ventures.

The important activity for fund was in 2000. The average startup value when the investment from St. Paul Venture Capital is 50-100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2004. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this St. Paul Venture Capital works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.