TA Associates

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

311

Average round size

38M

Portfolio companies

273

Rounds per year

5.55

Lead investments

88

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

162

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobileFinanceHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMedicalConsulting

Summary

In 1968 was created TA Associates, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the TA Associates, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, WR Hambrecht, Summit Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Summit Partners, True North, Tata Opportunities Fund (TOF). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Atlantic, iEurope Capital, Visa.

We also calculated 13 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cboe Global Markets, Accruent, Metro by T-Mobile. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Comparing to the other companies, this TA Associates performs on 18 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from TA Associates is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 45 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

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100M — 600M

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Analytics

Total investments
311
Lead investments
88
Exits
162
Rounds per year
5.55
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Software (107)
  • Financial Services (45)
  • Health Care (44)
  • Information Technology (41)
  • Finance (25)
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Investments by region
  • United States (212)
  • Sweden (3)
  • United Kingdom (13)
  • India (20)
  • Germany (11)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
18
Number of Decacorns
19
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
27
Avg. valuation at time of investment
221M
Group Appearance index
0.29
Avg. company exit year
21
Avg. multiplicator
2.34
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Nested Knowledge 05 Sep 2019 Analytics, Information Technology, Data Visualization Seed 250K United States, Minnesota, Saint Paul
06 Mar 2000 E-Learning, EdTech, Education Early Stage Venture 0 United States, Texas, Houston
Smooch Technologies 08 Aug 2016 Apps, Customer Service Seed 7M Quebec, Montreal, Canada

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