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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.68
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 7
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Health Care
  • Life Science
Summary

Third Security appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Radford.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biopharma, Fitness. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline LevelVision, Transgenomic, Cyntellect 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 a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The high activity for fund was in 2007. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Third Security works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 participants. Despite the Third Security, startups are often financed by NewVa Capital Partners, CIT GAP Funds, Rosalind Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NewVa Capital Partners, Valley Ventures, Randal J. Kirk. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NewVa Capital Partners, Randal J. Kirk, ROTH Capital Partners.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fitnet

Digital Media
Enterprise Software
Fitness
Health Care
Mobile
$1M15 Apr 2014 United States, " United States"}

Heyo

Apps
Social Media Marketing
Software
Web Design
$2M18 Mar 2014 Virginia, United States

Synchrony

Finance
Industrial
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Marketing
$10M30 Nov 2007 Virginia, United States

Precigen

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$25M16 May 2007 Maryland, United States

LevelVision

Hardware
Software
$5M02 Nov 2006 Roanoke, Virginia, United States

Synchrony

Finance
Industrial
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Marketing
$5M21 Feb 2006 Virginia, United States

Precigen

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$500K17 May 2005 Maryland, United States

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Total investments 15
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.68
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.53

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fitnet

Digital Media
Enterprise Software
Fitness
Health Care
Mobile
$1M15 Apr 2014 United States, " United States"}

Heyo

Apps
Social Media Marketing
Software
Web Design
$2M18 Mar 2014 Virginia, United States

Synchrony

Finance
Industrial
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Marketing
$10M30 Nov 2007 Virginia, United States

Precigen

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$25M16 May 2007 Maryland, United States

LevelVision

Hardware
Software
$5M02 Nov 2006 Roanoke, Virginia, United States

Synchrony

Finance
Industrial
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Marketing
$5M21 Feb 2006 Virginia, United States

Precigen

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$500K17 May 2005 Maryland, United States
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