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Bonsal Capital

Founders Frank A. Bonsal Jr. Frank Bonsal III

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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 1.67
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 14
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Software
  • EdTech
  • Children
  • E-Learning
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

KidzToPros

Communications Infrastructure
Education
Marketplace
24 Jan 2022 Fremont, California, United States

EveryDay Labs

$8M01 Sep 2021 Redwood City, California, United States

Upswing

EdTech
Higher Education
Software
$5M30 Mar 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

SendCloud

E-Commerce
Logistics
Shipping
$14M17 Nov 2020 Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

Nepris

Charter Schools
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Internet
$5M11 Mar 2020 Frisco, Texas, United States

Student Opportunity Center

Education
$850K20 Dec 2019 Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Terbium Labs

Computer
Cyber Security
Network Security
$6M29 Nov 2017 United States, Baltimore

BetterLesson

Education
Network Hardware
$10M28 Nov 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Faculty Guild

EdTech
Education
Higher Education
17 Jul 2017 Arlington, Virginia, United States

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Total investments 40
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.67
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.55

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

KidzToPros

Communications Infrastructure
Education
Marketplace
24 Jan 2022 Fremont, California, United States

EveryDay Labs

$8M01 Sep 2021 Redwood City, California, United States

Upswing

EdTech
Higher Education
Software
$5M30 Mar 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

SendCloud

E-Commerce
Logistics
Shipping
$14M17 Nov 2020 Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

Nepris

Charter Schools
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Internet
$5M11 Mar 2020 Frisco, Texas, United States

Student Opportunity Center

Education
$850K20 Dec 2019 Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Terbium Labs

Computer
Cyber Security
Network Security
$6M29 Nov 2017 United States, Baltimore

BetterLesson

Education
Network Hardware
$10M28 Nov 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Faculty Guild

EdTech
Education
Higher Education
17 Jul 2017 Arlington, Virginia, United States
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