DNS Capital
Chicago, United States40
74M
25
3.64
4
0.35
5
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Check size
- 25M — 100M
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Investments analytics
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) Show 63 more
- 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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- 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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