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Karlani Capital

Founders Donald Volk Nyla Koncurat Rudy Karsan Shahzil Amin

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Total investments 29
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 2.90
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 5
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
  • Cloud Management
Summary

Karlani Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. 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 Philadelphia.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Karlani Capital, startups are often financed by Pentech Ventures, 500 Startups, ZMC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sierra Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Wayra. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sigma Prime Ventures, Sierra Ventures, HDS Capital.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Karlani Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. This Karlani Capital works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The fund was created by Donald Volk, Nyla Koncurat, Rudy Karsan, Shahzil Amin. The overall number of key employees were 5.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SMS, Audio. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight INTELITY, ATS Secured, QL Gaming Group. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Betty

Casino
Gaming
Media and Entertainment
$5M14 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

Spren

$11M11 Oct 2022 -

Optimity

Information Technology
Insurance
IT Infrastructure
Life Insurance
Marketing
Sales
Service Industry
Wellness
$5M26 Jan 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kroo

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Apps
$24M09 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Phenom People

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$30M16 Jan 2020 Pennsylvania, United States

Optimity

Information Technology
Insurance
IT Infrastructure
Life Insurance
Marketing
Sales
Service Industry
Wellness
$1M14 Dec 2018 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

RotoQL

Sports
$3M06 Apr 2018 New York, New York, United States

INTELITY

Cloud Management
Enterprise Software
Hospitality
Mobile
PaaS
SaaS
Software
Travel
$19M20 Jun 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Phenom People

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$7M20 Oct 2015 Pennsylvania, United States

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Total investments 29
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 2.90
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.42

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Betty

Casino
Gaming
Media and Entertainment
$5M14 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

Spren

$11M11 Oct 2022 -

Optimity

Information Technology
Insurance
IT Infrastructure
Life Insurance
Marketing
Sales
Service Industry
Wellness
$5M26 Jan 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kroo

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Apps
$24M09 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Phenom People

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$30M16 Jan 2020 Pennsylvania, United States

Optimity

Information Technology
Insurance
IT Infrastructure
Life Insurance
Marketing
Sales
Service Industry
Wellness
$1M14 Dec 2018 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

RotoQL

Sports
$3M06 Apr 2018 New York, New York, United States

INTELITY

Cloud Management
Enterprise Software
Hospitality
Mobile
PaaS
SaaS
Software
Travel
$19M20 Jun 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Phenom People

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$7M20 Oct 2015 Pennsylvania, United States
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