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Wafra Partners

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$169M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.20
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Real Estate
  • Financial Services
  • Finance
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

In 1983 was created Wafra Partners, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The average startup value when the investment from Wafra Partners is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6 participants. Despite the Wafra Partners, startups are often financed by Foundation Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), ATA Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Xilinx, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Foundation Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Xilinx, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Foundation Capital.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Construction, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Synfora, Synfora

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Knotel

Construction
Interior Design
Internet
Real Estate
$400M21 Aug 2019 New York, New York, United States

Synfora

Hardware
Software
Wireless
$3M07 Mar 2007 Mountain View, California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 169M
Rounds per year 0.20
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Knotel

Construction
Interior Design
Internet
Real Estate
$400M21 Aug 2019 New York, New York, United States

Synfora

Hardware
Software
Wireless
$3M07 Mar 2007 Mountain View, California, United States
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