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StepStone Group

Founders Thomas Keck

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Total investments 75
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$133M
Portfolio companies 71
Rounds per year 4.41
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 4
Key employees 47
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • FinTech
  • Cyber Security
Summary

StepStone Group appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the La Jolla. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Thomas Keck. We also calculated 47 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the StepStone Group, startups are often financed by Upfront Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Apax Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Upfront Ventures, Updata Partners, Trident Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Smac Partners, Intel Capital, Winslow Capital.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This StepStone Group works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014.

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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Light, Invoca, Ingram Medical We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Photography, Marketing Automation. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Poolside

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Platform
Software
$2B02 Oct 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Revefi

Analytics
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
IT Infrastructure
$20M04 Sep 2024 Redmond, Washington, United States

Aurascape

Cyber Security
$12M06 Aug 2024 Santa Clara, California, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$60M02 Aug 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Zencity

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
CivicTech
Government
GovTech
Machine Learning
SaaS
Social Media
$40M18 Jun 2024 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

AcuityMD

Information Technology
Medical Device
mHealth
$45M04 Jun 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Frore Systems

Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$80M29 May 2024 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Transcend

Cloud Infrastructure
Compliance
Privacy
$40M28 May 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Tenon

Enterprise
Marketing
Security
$8M21 May 2024 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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Total investments 75
Average round size 133M
Rounds per year 4.41
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Poolside

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Platform
Software
$2B02 Oct 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Revefi

Analytics
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
IT Infrastructure
$20M04 Sep 2024 Redmond, Washington, United States

Aurascape

Cyber Security
$12M06 Aug 2024 Santa Clara, California, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$60M02 Aug 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Zencity

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
CivicTech
Government
GovTech
Machine Learning
SaaS
Social Media
$40M18 Jun 2024 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

AcuityMD

Information Technology
Medical Device
mHealth
$45M04 Jun 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Frore Systems

Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$80M29 May 2024 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Transcend

Cloud Infrastructure
Compliance
Privacy
$40M28 May 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Tenon

Enterprise
Marketing
Security
$8M21 May 2024 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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