Enlightenment Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chevy Chase, United States

Total investments

24

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

2.00

Lead investments

9

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesEnterprise SoftwareAerospaceCyber SecuritySecurityMarketingComputerConsulting

Summary

Enlightenment Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Chevy Chase. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This organization was formed by Devin Talbott.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline 0glass, Alauda, Aurora Flight Sciences Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cloud Infrastructure, Software. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Enlightenment Capital, startups are often financed by Gaorong Capital, CBC Capital, Westbury Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ming capital, Jun Capital, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yungpark Lingzhong Fund, Qingyan New Generation Artificial Intelligence Fund, District-10 VRAR Incubator Fund.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Enlightenment Capital works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AerospaceMilitaryGovtech/Legaltech
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 540000000
Fund raised date
2022-06-28

Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
9
Exits
6
Rounds per year
2.00
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Software (7)
  • Consulting (5)
  • Information Services (4)
  • Cyber Security (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (21)
  • China (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
9M
Group Appearance index
0.24
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
9.56

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Latest deals

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