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W.L. Ross & Co

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$66M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.21
Lead investments 1
Exits 3
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Product Design
  • Nanotechnology
  • Textiles
  • Clean Energy
  • Chemical
Summary

W.L. Ross & Co appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2005. Opposing the other organizations, this W.L. Ross & Co works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2000.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Nanotechnology, Natural Resources. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SpiceJet Limited, LP Amina For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the W.L. Ross & Co, startups are often financed by Qiming Venture Partners, Hao Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Qiming Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Masters Capital Management.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LP Amina

Chemical
Clean Energy
Energy
Environmental Engineering
$20M06 Aug 2013 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Nanotex

Nanotechnology
Product Design
Textiles
$35M08 Mar 2005 Michigan, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 66M
Rounds per year 0.21
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 1
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LP Amina

Chemical
Clean Energy
Energy
Environmental Engineering
$20M06 Aug 2013 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Nanotex

Nanotechnology
Product Design
Textiles
$35M08 Mar 2005 Michigan, United States
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