William Blair
26
28M
21
0.30
6
0.19
10
- Areas of investment
Summary
William Blair is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1935. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Chicago.
The current fund was established by James Vaughan.
The fund has specific favorite in a number of 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Inhibitex, Athersys, Xan3D Technologies. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Services, Biotechnology. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the William Blair, startups are often financed by MPM Capital, Forward Ventures, Enterprise Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Partners, Reicon Capital, Optical Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Forward Ventures, Enterprise Partners, BB Biotech Ventures.
The high activity for fund was in 2000. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this William Blair works on 19 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2005. The average startup value when the investment from William Blair is 50-100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 26
- Lead investments
- 6
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 0.30
- Follow on index
- 0.19
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (8)
- Biotechnology (6)
- Information Technology (4)
- Software (4)
- Manufacturing (3) Show 42 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (25)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 23
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 43M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.88
- Avg. company exit year
- 14
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.26
- Strategy success index
- 0.20
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CryoCor | 06 Jun 2003 | Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical, CleanTech | Late Stage Venture | 27M | United States, California, San Diego |
| Prime Trust | 22 Jun 2022 | Financial Services, FinTech, Banking, Cryptocurrency, Crowdfunding, Blockchain | Early Stage Venture | 107M | United States, Nevada, Las Vegas |
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