Sycamore Ventures

Total investments

39

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

20

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

12

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMedical DeviceFacility Management

Summary

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

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2003. Comparing to the other companies, this Sycamore Ventures performs on 2 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Sycamore Ventures, startups are often financed by Amicus Capital, WI Harper Group, Sierra Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sierra Ventures, Harbinger Ventures, Amkey Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sierra Ventures, Amkey Ventures, Amicus Capital.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Biotechnology. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 MAKO Surgical, United Platform Technologies, beenz.com

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
5
Exits
12
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Medical Device (12)
  • Health Care (11)
  • Manufacturing (11)
  • Software (8)
  • Mobile (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (31)
  • China (3)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • India (2)
Peak activity year
2003
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
187M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
3.54
Strategy success index
0.20

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