Kaplan Ventures

Total investments

8

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

7

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinTechE-LearningCollaborationEnterprise SoftwareCorporate TrainingEdTechTrainingEducationVirtual World

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Education (5)
  • E-Learning (4)
  • EdTech (3)
  • Enterprise Software (2)
  • Collaboration (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (8)
Peak activity year
2013

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
128M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
8

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Newsela 09 Oct 2013 E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Language Learning Seed 1M United States, New York, New York

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