Bonsal Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Baltimore, United States

Total investments

40

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

1.67

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

14

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareE-LearningRecruitingSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCommunitiesEdTechEducationChildrenManagement Information Systems

Summary

Bonsal Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Baltimore. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Frank A. Bonsal, Jr., Frank Bonsal III. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Bonsal Capital, startups are often financed by New Markets Venture Partners, TDF Ventures, Reach Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Markets Venture Partners, TDF Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Markets Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Comcast Ventures.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Bonsal Capital performs on 10 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Enterprise Software. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Starfish Retention Solutions, Moodlerooms, StraighterLine.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EdtechFuture of Work
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
0
Exits
14
Rounds per year
1.67
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Education (25)
  • Software (8)
  • EdTech (6)
  • Children (5)
  • E-Learning (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (38)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • Spain (1)
Peak activity year
2015

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
40M
Group Appearance index
0.55
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.75
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sickweather 01 Apr 2015 Big Data, Social Media, mHealth, Predictive Analytics Seed 250K United States, Missouri, Kansas City

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