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Hennessey Capital

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$26M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.26
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Renewable Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Public Transportation
  • Automotive
  • Battery
Summary

Hennessey Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2002. 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 Rochester Hills.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are CRM, Data Visualization. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MapAnything. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2017. This Hennessey Capital works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. When the investment is from Hennessey Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Hennessey Capital, startups are often financed by VentureSouth, Vision Ridge Capital Partners, Upstate Carolina Angel Network. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vision Ridge Capital Partners, Upstate Carolina Angel Network, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VentureSouth, Upstate Carolina Angel Network, Tao Capital Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MapAnything

CRM
Data Visualization
Location Based Services
Software
$42M17 Nov 2017 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Proterra

Automotive
Battery
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Public Transportation
Renewable Energy
$34M08 Jan 2014 California, United States

Proterra

Automotive
Battery
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Public Transportation
Renewable Energy
$23M21 Nov 2012 California, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 26M
Rounds per year 0.26
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MapAnything

CRM
Data Visualization
Location Based Services
Software
$42M17 Nov 2017 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Proterra

Automotive
Battery
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Public Transportation
Renewable Energy
$34M08 Jan 2014 California, United States

Proterra

Automotive
Battery
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Public Transportation
Renewable Energy
$23M21 Nov 2012 California, United States
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