Kapor Capital
CVC, Non-Profit
Active
Oakland, United States
279
6M
185
11.16
13
0.33
43
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
Preferences and restrictions
- Requirements for founders
- Female People of color
- Restriction
- We invest in tech-driven early-stage companies who are committed to making a difference and closing gaps of access in low-income and communities of color in the United States. We seek entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, especially people of color, women and other groups that have been historically underrepresented.
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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) Show 232 more
- Investments by region
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- 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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- 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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Latest deals
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| Shifted Energy | 06 Mar 2023 | Electronics, Energy, Renewable Energy | Seed | 4M | United States, Hawaii, Honolulu |
| Yeti Confetti Kids | 04 Apr 2024 | Seed | 5M | United States, Menlo Park, California |
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