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Sycamore Ventures

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Total investments 39
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 20
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 12
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Medical Device
  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
  • Software
  • Mobile
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Apexigen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$20M06 Aug 2013 California, United States

MAKO Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$30M06 Feb 2007 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$14M23 May 2006 Sunnyvale, California, United States

E-Commerce
Internet
$3M05 May 2006 New Jersey, United States

MAKO Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$20M08 Aug 2005 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$8M23 Jun 2005 Sunnyvale, California, United States

MAKO Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$4M25 Apr 2005 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$10M01 Nov 2003 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$7M01 May 2003 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Total investments 39
Average round size 14M
Peak activity year 2003
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Apexigen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$20M06 Aug 2013 California, United States

MAKO Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$30M06 Feb 2007 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$14M23 May 2006 Sunnyvale, California, United States

E-Commerce
Internet
$3M05 May 2006 New Jersey, United States

MAKO Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$20M08 Aug 2005 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$8M23 Jun 2005 Sunnyvale, California, United States

MAKO Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$4M25 Apr 2005 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$10M01 Nov 2003 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$7M01 May 2003 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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