The Carlyle Group

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Washington, United States

Total investments

328

Average round size

244M

Portfolio companies

251

Rounds per year

8.86

Lead investments

102

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

111

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedical

Summary

In 1987 was created The Carlyle Group, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Washington.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the The Carlyle Group, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Delphi Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Delphi Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Atlas Venture. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Venrock, Delphi Ventures.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from The Carlyle Group is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Blackboard, Tuhu, Ubox We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Service Industry, Asset Management. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAerospaceGovtech/LegaltechConsumer/RetailMedia/Content Show 9 more
Stage focus
GeneralistPre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B Show 1 more
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 2800000000
Fund raised date
2024-05-21

Analytics

Total investments
328
Lead investments
102
Exits
111
Rounds per year
8.86
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (62)
  • Health Care (51)
  • Information Technology (43)
  • Internet (38)
  • Financial Services (36)
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Investments by region
  • China (29)
  • United States (181)
  • India (24)
  • South Korea (7)
  • Bermuda (2)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
22
Number of Decacorns
25
Number of Minotaurs
16

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
889M
Group Appearance index
0.60
Avg. company exit year
16
Avg. multiplicator
1.92
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

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