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JK&B Capital

Founders David Kronfeld George Spencer

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Total investments 114
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 67
Rounds per year 4.22
Lead investments 20
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 37
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Security
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$30M27 Feb 2017 Rishon Lezion, Center District, Israel

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$8M23 Oct 2012 Rishon Lezion, Center District, Israel

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Enterprise Software
Security
$8M04 Sep 2012 Massachusetts, United States

S.E.A. Medical Systems

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$3M25 Jan 2012 San Jose, California, United States

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Enterprise Software
Security
$9M16 Feb 2010 Massachusetts, United States

VMIX Media

Internet
Publishing
Video
$2M01 Oct 2009 San Diego, California, United States

Chumby

Developer Tools
Hardware
Software
$12M31 Mar 2008 San Diego, California, United States

NextIO

Information Technology
$18M29 Feb 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

Nanochip

Data Storage
Hardware
Music
$14M22 Jan 2008 Fremont, California, United States

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Total investments 114
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 4.22
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 37
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$30M27 Feb 2017 Rishon Lezion, Center District, Israel

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$8M23 Oct 2012 Rishon Lezion, Center District, Israel

Viewfinity

Enterprise Software
Security
$8M04 Sep 2012 Massachusetts, United States

S.E.A. Medical Systems

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$3M25 Jan 2012 San Jose, California, United States

Viewfinity

Enterprise Software
Security
$9M16 Feb 2010 Massachusetts, United States

VMIX Media

Internet
Publishing
Video
$2M01 Oct 2009 San Diego, California, United States

Chumby

Developer Tools
Hardware
Software
$12M31 Mar 2008 San Diego, California, United States

NextIO

Information Technology
$18M29 Feb 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

Nanochip

Data Storage
Hardware
Music
$14M22 Jan 2008 Fremont, California, United States
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