Vestar Capital Partners

Total investments

16

Average round size

134M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

0.44

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
RetailFood and BeverageFitnessHealth CareHospitalMedicalHealth InsuranceInsuranceRisk ManagementLife Insurance

Summary

Vestar Capital Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1988. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight IRI, Yunzhou Intelligence Technology. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Food and Beverage, Health Care. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. 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 2 partakers. Despite the Vestar Capital Partners, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, The R-Group, LLC, New Mountain Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zhuhai High Tech Investment, Zhencheng Capital, ZhenFund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Qianhai Wutong Mergers and Acquisitions Funds, Huajin Financial International Holdings, Cleveland Avenue.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2004. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Vestar Capital Partners works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 68 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The current fund was established by Daniel S. O'Connell, James P. Kelley, Norman W. Alpert, Robert L. Rosner.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
9
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.44
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (8)
  • Insurance (3)
  • Hospital (3)
  • Food and Beverage (3)
  • Retail (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • China (1)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
30
Avg. valuation at time of investment
130M
Group Appearance index
0.56
Avg. company exit year
76
Avg. multiplicator
2.03
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bhakti 02 Mar 2015 Food and Beverage, Organic Food Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Boulder, Colorado

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