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Five Elms Capital

Founders Fred Coulson

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Total investments 85
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 65
Rounds per year 5.00
Lead investments 23
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 10
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • E-Commerce
Summary

In 2007 was created Five Elms Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Kansas City. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This organization was formed by Fred Coulson.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Flywheel, Quest Inspar, Field Agent, Inc. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are EdTech, Software.

The real fund results show that this VC is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This Five Elms Capital works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Five Elms Capital, startups are often financed by Ludlow Ventures, Linseed Capital, Lightbank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Level Equity, Village Ventures, Thayer Street Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by WorldQuant Ventures LLC, Prelude Ventures, Hudson Structured Capital Management.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fable

Usability Testing
16 Oct 2024 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Prismatic

B2B
Software
$22M17 Jan 2024 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

ShippyPro

Developer APIs
E-Commerce
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Marketplace
Shipping
Software
Supply Chain Management
Warehousing
$15M07 Nov 2023 Firenze, Toscana, Italy

Sendlane

Advertising
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
Information Technology
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Software
$4M29 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Practice Better

Health Care
Information Services
Software
$21M20 Apr 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Prismatic

B2B
Software
$9M20 Jan 2023 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

Sendlane

Advertising
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
Information Technology
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Software
$1M28 Dec 2022 San Diego, California, United States

SingleOps

CRM
Information Technology
ISP
Point of Sale
SaaS
Software
$74M12 Jul 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Fable

Usability Testing
$10M17 May 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
News
Sendlane raises $20M to convert shoppers into loyal customers

– Sendlane, a San Diego-based multichannel marketing automation platform, announced Thursday it raised $20m in Series A funding.
Five Elms Capital and others invested in the round to give Sendlane total funding of $23m since the company was founded in 2018.
– The company said it can increase revenue for customers between 20% and 40% on average.

ShippyPro Raises $5M in Series A Funding

– ShippyPro from Florence, Italy raised $5m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Five Elms Capital.
– The company plans to use the funds to continue hiring and reach 150 employees in the next 12 months, to execute on its product roadmap, which includes releasing new features to help customers optimize their fulfillment processes and save budget on logistics spend, including functionality that will focus on the CO2 impact of deliveries.

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Total investments 85
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 5.00
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 23
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.26

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fable

Usability Testing
16 Oct 2024 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Prismatic

B2B
Software
$22M17 Jan 2024 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

ShippyPro

Developer APIs
E-Commerce
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Marketplace
Shipping
Software
Supply Chain Management
Warehousing
$15M07 Nov 2023 Firenze, Toscana, Italy

Sendlane

Advertising
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
Information Technology
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Software
$4M29 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Practice Better

Health Care
Information Services
Software
$21M20 Apr 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Prismatic

B2B
Software
$9M20 Jan 2023 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

Sendlane

Advertising
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
Information Technology
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Software
$1M28 Dec 2022 San Diego, California, United States

SingleOps

CRM
Information Technology
ISP
Point of Sale
SaaS
Software
$74M12 Jul 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Fable

Usability Testing
$10M17 May 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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