The Aurora Funds
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13M
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2.34
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0.44
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- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The Aurora Funds is the famous VC, which was founded in 1994. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Durham.
The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, Opsware, Blackboard. 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 most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical Device, Pharmaceutical. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the The Aurora Funds, startups are often financed by The Trelys Funds, Intersouth Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Harbert Growth Partners, 180 Degree Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 180 Degree Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, Intersouth Partners.
The fund was created by Jeff Clark. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Comparing to the other companies, this The Aurora Funds performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from The Aurora Funds the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 68
- Lead investments
- 12
- Exits
- 17
- Rounds per year
- 2.34
- Follow on index
- 0.44
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (31)
- Health Care (23)
- Software (22)
- Therapeutics (13)
- Medical Device (9) Show 57 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (68)
- Peak activity year
- 2005
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 22
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 112M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.90
- Avg. company exit year
- 21
- Avg. multiplicator
- 7.18
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cropsolution | 14 Oct 2005 | Chemical, Agriculture, Farming | Late Stage Venture | 2M | United States, North Carolina, Morrisville |
| Engenia Software | 31 Aug 1999 | Software, Developer Tools, Computer | Early Stage Venture | 6M | United States, Virginia |
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