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Kaplan Ventures

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 7
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • E-Learning
  • EdTech
  • Enterprise Software
  • Collaboration
Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Miami.

The high activity for fund was in 2013. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Kaplan Ventures works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Newsela, ProtonMedia, Moodlerooms. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Online Auctions, Virtual World.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Kaplan Ventures, startups are often financed by Bonsal Capital, Osage Venture Partners, Originate Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Osage Venture Partners, Originate Ventures, NewSchools Venture Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Osage Venture Partners, Knight Enterprise Fund, WomensVCFund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ClassWallet

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M13 Jul 2015 Hollywood, Florida, United States

ExecOnline

Corporate Training
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Software
Training
$5M23 Oct 2014 New York, United States

Newsela

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Language Learning
$1M09 Oct 2013 New York, New York, United States

Treehouse

Android
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
iOS
Web Design
Web Development
$7M10 Apr 2013 Portland, Oregon, United States

ProtonMedia

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Virtual World
$4M20 Jun 2011 Pennsylvania, United States

StraighterLine

E-Learning
Education
Internet
$1M20 Jan 2010 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 3M
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ClassWallet

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M13 Jul 2015 Hollywood, Florida, United States

ExecOnline

Corporate Training
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Software
Training
$5M23 Oct 2014 New York, United States

Newsela

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Language Learning
$1M09 Oct 2013 New York, New York, United States

Treehouse

Android
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
iOS
Web Design
Web Development
$7M10 Apr 2013 Portland, Oregon, United States

ProtonMedia

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Virtual World
$4M20 Jun 2011 Pennsylvania, United States

StraighterLine

E-Learning
Education
Internet
$1M20 Jan 2010 Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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