Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors

Total investments

28

Average round size

177M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

0.70

Lead investments

13

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
SoftwareMobileHealth CareSaaSManufacturingTelecommunicationsEnergyRenewable EnergyOil and GasCustomer Service

Summary

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors is the famous VC, which was founded in 1984. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Los Angeles. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, startups are often financed by Robeco, NGEN Partners, Dolby Family Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NewRoad Capital Partners, W Fund, Temasek Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Zac Brandenberg, Yehuda Shmidman, Stable Road Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Birch Communications, XOG, OpenMethods. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Telecommunications, SaaS. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Richard Kayne. The overall number of key employees were 40.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
28
Lead investments
13
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.70
Investments by industry
  • Energy (12)
  • Oil and Gas (9)
  • Software (4)
  • SaaS (4)
  • Health Care (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (27)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2016

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.64
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
DotCom Therapy 10 Apr 2024 E-Learning, Fitness, Health Care, Hospital, Speech Recognition Late Stage Venture United States, Wisconsin, Madison

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