Syngenta Ventures

Summary

Syngenta Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Basel. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Syngenta Ventures, startups are often financed by 180 Degree Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, The Aurora Funds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 180 Degree Capital, The Aurora Funds, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, WP Global Partners, Tiger Global Management.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

Opposing the other organizations, this Syngenta Ventures works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Aerospace, Chemical. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Planet, Brandtone, Agrivida The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.