DNS Capital

Chicago, United States
Family Office
Active
Total investments

40

Average round size

74M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

3.64

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

5

Areas of investment
Financial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageFood ProcessingHealth CareRoboticsMedical DeviceOrganic Food

Summary

DNS Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the DNS Capital, startups are often financed by PowerPlant Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GreatPoint Ventures, Cleveland Avenue, Tao Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cleveland Avenue, Tyson Foods, Sebastian Picardo.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight STX Entertainment, Beyond Meat, Aquion Energy. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Financial Services, Education. 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 typical startup value when the investment from DNS Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this DNS Capital works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund was created by Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker. The overall number of key employees were 6.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistManufacturingConsumer/RetailProptech/Real EstateAgriculture
Stage focus
GeneralistPre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B Show 1 more
Check size
25M — 100M

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Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
4
Exits
5
Rounds per year
3.64
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Food and Beverage (8)
  • Health Care (6)
  • Food Processing (6)
  • Organic Food (6)
  • Medical Device (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (33)
  • Canada (2)
  • Sweden (1)
  • Spain (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
189M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.00
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Brave Company31 Jan 2019Publishing, Internet, NewsEarly Stage Venture1MGyeonggi-do, South Korea, South Korea
Magic Bus01 Jan 2019Infrastructure, Transportation, Ride SharingSeed0Maharashtra, Mumbai, India
Recogni20 Feb 2024Late Stage Venture102MUnited States, California, Cupertino
RedShelf24 Aug 2018E-Commerce, Education, Digital Media, Web Development, EBooksLate Stage Venture25MUnited States, Illinois, Chicago
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