Five Elms Capital

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.