Private Placement Activity Chris Hastings | [email protected] | 917-621-3750 3/5/2018 – 3/9/2018 (Transactions in Excess of $20 Million)
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Private Capital Group Private Placement Activity Chris Hastings | [email protected] | 917-621-3750 3/5/2018 – 3/9/2018 (Transactions in excess of $20 million) Trends & Commentary ▪ This week, 14 U.S. private placement deals between $20 million and $50 million closed, accounting for U.S. VC Average Deal Size by Series $516 million in total proceeds, compared to last week’s 10 U.S. deals leading to $357 million in total $ in Millions proceeds. This week also had 5 U.S. deals between $50 million and $100 million yielding $320 million, $35 compared to last week’s 4 deals resulting in $279 million in total proceeds. ▪ The U.S. VC average deal size has been significantly increasing for early and late stage VC deals. Late $30 stage VC has increased by 8.8% CAGR 2008 – 2017 while early stage VC has grown by 7.4% CAGR 2008 – 2017. (see figure) ▪ Southern Cross, a PE fund that invests in energy, pharmaceuticals and technology in Latin America, has $25 decided against restructuring its third fund after receiving some interest from its LPs. It is largely because its third fund has been a weak performer, the discount on fund stakes would have been steep and that the $20 fund wanted more time to exit. ▪ Univision has filed to withdraw its pending IPO due to “prevailing market conditions”. Univision initially filed $15 plans to IPO in 2015. ▪ New State Capital Partners has closed its second institutional fund on its $255 million hard cap. The fund $10 can invest more than $50 million equity per deal in sectors such as business services, healthcare services and industrials. ▪ Travis Kalanick has launched 10100, a new investment fund. 10100 will focus on large-scale job creation $5 investments in real estate and e-Commerce companies in China and India, as well as a nonprofit focus on education and the future of cities. $- ▪ First-time VC funds raised $5.9 billion across 59 vehicles in 2017, a 21% YoY increase in capital raised and 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 37% YoY increase in the number of first-time funds. Angel / Seed Early VC Later VC Highlights ▪ Atom, a developer of a movie ticket booking application, raised $60 million in Series C funding – Fidelity Investments led the round. ▪ True Fit, a provider of a data platform for fashion retailers to find online stores, raised $59 million in Series C funding at a $220 pre-money valuation – Georgian Partners led the round. ▪ TripActions, a developer of an online corporate and business travel management platform, raised $51 million in Series B funding at a $209 million pre-money valuation – existing investor Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round. ▪ Degreed, a provider of an employee learning platform, raised $43 million in Series C funding at a $175 million pre-money valuation – Owl Ventures and existing investor Jump Capital led the round. ▪ Qualia, a developer of a cloud-based real estate transaction platform, raised $33 million in Series B funding – Menlo Ventures led the round. Source: PitchBook Data, Inc., NYSE, S&P Global Market Intelligence Strictly Private & Confidential Note: Bolded names in “Investors” column indicate existing investors participating in new deal 1 Private Placement Activity 3/5/2018 – 3/9/2018 (Transactions in excess of $20 million) Company Company Amount Date Investors Series Company Description / Comments Name Location Raised ($M) Information Technology Provider of an online education platform intended to make learning a beautiful experience. The DST Global, H Capital, Shunwei Capital, company's platform provides interactive services and products as well as a complete set of data- 17zuoye 7-Mar-18 Beijing, China Temasek Holdings, Tiger Global Management, $200 Series E centric, intelligent, and efficient online and offline work for parents, students and teachers in K12 Toutiao, Xu Xiaoping education, primarily on mathematics and english language learning. Toutiao led the round. GGV Capital, Hearst Ventures, IDG Capital, Provider of an online home decoration, furnishing and design platform intended to quickly generate Jingwei International, Linear Venture, Matrix design sketches to decorate and furnish homes. The company's platform offers information and Kujiale 9-Mar-18 Hangzhou, China $100 Series D Partners China, Pavilion Capital, Shunwei reviews on businesses related to home decoration and furnishing, enabling users to design and Capital, Yunqi Partners furnish their homes easily. Shunwei Capital led the round. $500 million pre-money valuation. Developer of a movie ticket booking application designed to streamline the process of purchasing 21st Century Fox, Disney Accelerator, Fidelity tickets and concessions from any device. The company's application provides relevant reviews, Atom 8-Mar-18 Santa Monica, CA Investments, Lions Gate Entertainment, Oak $60 Series C trailers and synopses to help moviegoers make the best decision on what to see and users may then View Group, The Walt Disney Company invite friends via their contact lists or Facebook to purchase their own tickets and join them. Fidelity Investments led the round. Breakaway Innovation Group, BYU Cougar Provider of an intelligent data platform created for fashion retailers to find online stores. The Capital, Cross Creek Advisors, Founder company's intelligent data platform connect data and API integrations AI/machine learning personal Collective, Georgian Partners, Guggenheim True Fit 6-Mar-18 Boston, MA $59 Series C experiences from thousands of leading apparel and footwear brands, anonymized consumer order Partners, Intel Capital, Jump Capital, Novel data from hundreds of retailers, and personal preference data from users. Georgian Partners led the TMT Ventures, Promus Ventures, Signal Peak round. $220 million pre-money valuation. Ventures Developer of an online corporate and business travel management platform designed to help business travel managers and travelers in booking hotels and flights at a discounted price. The Lightspeed Venture Partners, SGVC, Zeev TripActions 7-Mar-18 Palo Alto, CA $51 Series B company's online corporate and business travel management platform offers a dashboard which Ventures shows information related to travel management reports, savings, itinerary details and conducts reward programs. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round. $209 million pre-money valuation. BYU Cougar Capital, Founders Circle Capital, Provider of a lifelong learning platform designed to help employees learn the right skills. The GSV Acceleration, GSV Advisors, Jump company's lifelong learning platform is an online service for identifying skill gaps and how to pick them San Francisco, Degreed 8-Mar-18 Capital, Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, Owl $43 Series C up, as well as track them, enabling employees improve their skills even more, and in the end become CA Ventures, Peak Ventures, Rethink, Signal Peak much more valuable to the employer. Jump Capital, Owl Ventures led the round. $175 million pre- Ventures, Techstars money valuation. A.Capital Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Provider of an application programming interface designed to take production container operations Center Electric, CrunchFund, Data Collective, and data services automation to the next level. The company's interface combines data center servers San Francisco, Foundation Capital, FUEL Capital, Intel, Khosla Mesosphere 6-Mar-18 $40 NA and cloud instances into one shared pool from which any application or framework can be drawn, CA Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, enabling users to ensure their applications are performant and reliable, include DC/OS-native tools for Microsoft, SV Angel, Triangle Peak Partners, monitoring and troubleshooting. Two Sigma Ventures Source: PitchBook Data, Inc., NYSE, S&P Global Market Intelligence Strictly Private & Confidential Note: Bolded names in “Investors” column indicate existing investors participating in new deal 2 Private Placement Activity 3/5/2018 – 3/9/2018 (Transactions in excess of $20 million) Company Company Amount Date Investors Series Company Description / Comments Name Location Raised ($M) Information Technology Developer of desktop and cloud-based automated web application security scanners. The company Pinner, United specializes in finding and reporting web application vulnerabilities on all types of web applications, Netsparker 8-Mar-18 Turn/River Capital $40 NA Kingdom regardless of the platform and technology, enabling clients to audit the security of their websites through scanners which are automatic, accurate and easy-to-use. Turn/River Capital led the deal. Developer of a cloud-based real estate transaction management and settlement platform designed to San Francisco, 8VC, Bienville Capital Management, simplify the real estate closing process. The company's real estate tech platform brings everyone Qualia 7-Mar-18 $33 Series B CA Formation 8, Menlo Ventures involved in the transaction, including lenders, realtors, title agents, home buyers and sellers, onto one shared, secure platform. Menlo Ventures led the round. Co-Stone Capital, F&G Ventures, Fortune Developer of a real-time financial risk management platform created to provide risk management Venture Capital Company, Jinghong Capital, products for areas including ticketing, transport, telecom and public security. The company's financial BangSun Technology 5-Mar-18 Hangzhou, China $24 Series C Legend Capital, M Fund, SDIC Venture Capital, risk management platform develops real-time risk control system for the financial sector and anti-fraud Xinglu Investment products, based