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Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors

Founders Richard Kayne

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$177M
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 0.70
Lead investments 13
Exits 4
Key employees 39
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Oil and Gas
  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Health Care
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

DotCom Therapy

E-Learning
Fitness
Health Care
Hospital
Speech Recognition
10 Apr 2024 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

CreatorIQ

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Marketing
Software
$24M21 Jul 2020 California, United States

Circle Cardiovascular Imaging

Computer
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$16M15 May 2018 Calgary, Canada

Athira Pharma

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$15M02 Nov 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Drinks

B2C
Big Data
Commercial
E-Commerce
Marketplace
SaaS
Wine And Spirits
$11M12 Jun 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

OpenMethods

CRM
Customer Service
Software
Telecommunications
$5M03 Feb 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Business Development
Contact Management
Mobile
$2M01 Feb 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 28
Average round size 177M
Rounds per year 0.70
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 13
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

DotCom Therapy

E-Learning
Fitness
Health Care
Hospital
Speech Recognition
10 Apr 2024 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

CreatorIQ

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Marketing
Software
$24M21 Jul 2020 California, United States

Circle Cardiovascular Imaging

Computer
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$16M15 May 2018 Calgary, Canada

Athira Pharma

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$15M02 Nov 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Drinks

B2C
Big Data
Commercial
E-Commerce
Marketplace
SaaS
Wine And Spirits
$11M12 Jun 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

OpenMethods

CRM
Customer Service
Software
Telecommunications
$5M03 Feb 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Business Development
Contact Management
Mobile
$2M01 Feb 2012 San Francisco, California, United States
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