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KPS Capital

Founders David Shapiro Eugene Keilin Michael Psaros

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Total investments 4
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$176M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.13
Lead investments 2
Exits 4
Key employees 11
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Transportation
  • Fuel Cell
  • Software
  • Mobile
Summary

In 1991 was created KPS Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by David Shapiro, Eugene Keilin, Michael Psaros.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Transportation. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Servo Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This KPS Capital works on 71 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2006.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GE Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Transportation Resource Partners, Asset Management Ventures (AMV).

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Servo Software

Mobile
Software
$1M26 May 2006 California, United States

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Total investments 4
Average round size 176M
Rounds per year 0.13
Peak activity year 2002
Lead investments 2
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Servo Software

Mobile
Software
$1M26 May 2006 California, United States
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