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Texas Wide Open for Business

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Total investments 24
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 0.67
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Biopharma
  • Medical
Summary

Texas Wide Open for Business is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1987. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Austin. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Texas Wide Open for Business, startups are often financed by Battery Ventures, Rho Capital Partners, PTV Healthcare Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are PTV Healthcare Capital, Gatebridge Investments, Targeted Technology Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TEXO Ventures, SAIL Capital Partners LLC, LiveOak Venture Partners.

This Texas Wide Open for Business works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2009. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Health Diagnostics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Ortho Kinematics, Bi02 Medical, Terapio

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bi02 Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$13M27 Mar 2012 San Antonio, Texas, United States

SolarBridge Technologies

Alternative Energy Equipment
Electronics
Manufacturing
Solar
$19M20 Jun 2011 Austin, Texas, United States

ViroXis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$2M15 Oct 2010 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Palmaz Scientific

Cosmetics
Health Care
Manufacturing
$3M27 Jul 2010 Fremont, California, United States

Ensysce Biosciences

Biotechnology
Delivery
Health Care
Medical
Nanotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$1M10 Jun 2010 San Diego, California, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M31 Jan 2010 Austin, Texas, United States

Syndiant

Consumer Electronics
Industrial
Semiconductor
$10M20 Aug 2009 Dallas, Texas, United States

Targazyme

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$60M15 Jul 2009 Carlsbad, California, United States

Cormedics

Health Care
Therapeutics
$750K01 Jan 2009 Houston, Texas, United States

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Total investments 24
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.67
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.29

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bi02 Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$13M27 Mar 2012 San Antonio, Texas, United States

SolarBridge Technologies

Alternative Energy Equipment
Electronics
Manufacturing
Solar
$19M20 Jun 2011 Austin, Texas, United States

ViroXis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$2M15 Oct 2010 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Palmaz Scientific

Cosmetics
Health Care
Manufacturing
$3M27 Jul 2010 Fremont, California, United States

Ensysce Biosciences

Biotechnology
Delivery
Health Care
Medical
Nanotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$1M10 Jun 2010 San Diego, California, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M31 Jan 2010 Austin, Texas, United States

Syndiant

Consumer Electronics
Industrial
Semiconductor
$10M20 Aug 2009 Dallas, Texas, United States

Targazyme

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$60M15 Jul 2009 Carlsbad, California, United States

Cormedics

Health Care
Therapeutics
$750K01 Jan 2009 Houston, Texas, United States
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