Kapor Capital

Type

CVC, Non-Profit

Status

Active

Location

Oakland, United States

Total investments

279

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

185

Rounds per year

11.16

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

43

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileHuman ResourcesHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducation

Summary

In 1999 was created Kapor Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Oakland. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Kapor Capital, startups are often financed by Imagine K12, NewSchools Venture Fund, Cross Culture Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ulu Ventures, Marc Bell Ventures, Felicis Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, GV, Y Combinator.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, SaaS. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Omada Health, Thrive Market. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

This organization was formed by Freada Klein-Kapor, Mitch Kapor. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Kapor Capital is 10-50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Kapor Capital works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2015.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistEdtechFintechHealthcare
Stage focus
SeedPre-Seed
Geo focus
United States

Preferences and restrictions

Requirements for founders
Female People of color

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
279
Lead investments
13
Exits
43
Rounds per year
11.16
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Education (64)
  • Software (61)
  • Financial Services (46)
  • Health Care (41)
  • SaaS (36)
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Investments by region
  • United States (271)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • Kenya (2)
  • Japan (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
512M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.18
Strategy success index
0.50

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