The Vertical Group

Total investments

67

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

1.91

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

19

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareHealth CareWellnessManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

The Vertical Group is the famous VC, which was founded in 1988. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Basking Ridge. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical Device, Biotechnology. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 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 Omada Health, TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals, Elron Electronic Industries. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the The Vertical Group, startups are often financed by Warburg Pincus, Maryland Venture Fund, LaunchCapital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Latterell Venture Partners, Domain Associates, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Warburg Pincus, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), The New Markets Growth Fund.

The top activity for fund was in 2006. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this The Vertical Group works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from The Vertical Group the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
67
Lead investments
6
Exits
19
Rounds per year
1.91
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (52)
  • Medical Device (39)
  • Medical (33)
  • Biotechnology (28)
  • Therapeutics (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (66)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2006
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
235M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.14
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Luminopia 27 Jun 2023 Commercial, Software, Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, Industrial Early Stage Venture 16M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals 04 Nov 2008 Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 154M United States, California, Redwood City

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