JK&B Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

115

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

67

Rounds per year

4.11

Lead investments

20

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

37

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSecurityTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

JK&B Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2003. Opposing the other organizations, this JK&B Capital works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from JK&B Capital is 50-100 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the JK&B Capital, startups are often financed by Goldman Sachs, Labrador Ventures, Star Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Innovacom, Goldman Sachs, Star Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Innovacom, HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs.

The current fund was established by David Kronfeld, George Spencer. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Splunk, Onix Microsystems, Aperto Networks. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Telecommunications, Network Security.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareTelecommunications

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
115
Lead investments
20
Exits
37
Rounds per year
4.11
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Software (44)
  • Enterprise Software (26)
  • Manufacturing (22)
  • Information Technology (21)
  • Security (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (95)
  • Canada (9)
  • Israel (7)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Sweden (1)
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Peak activity year
2006
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
61M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.75
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Baynote 12 Jan 2011 Analytics, Machine Learning Late Stage Venture 13M United States, California, San Jose
PointBase 04 Oct 1999 Big Data, Data Visualization Late Stage Venture 7M United States, California, Mountain View

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