KB Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Highland Park, United States

Total investments

73

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

47

Rounds per year

2.61

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

10

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyGamingeSportsHealth CareManufacturingSportsVideoMedia and EntertainmentVideo Streaming

Summary

KB Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Highland Park.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the KB Partners, startups are often financed by Canaan Partners, ABS Ventures, Enterprise Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wand Partners, Ticketmaster, Kettle Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sterling Capital Management, RiverVest, Kaiser Permanente Ventures.

The current fund was established by Byron Denenberg, Keith Bank. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2001. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this KB Partners works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Active Network, Verax Biomedical, Accumetrics. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, Service Industry.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Sportstech
Stage focus
Seed
Check size
1M — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 127000000
Fund raised date
2022-11-23

Analytics

Total investments
73
Lead investments
18
Exits
10
Rounds per year
2.61
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Sports (20)
  • Software (18)
  • Gaming (11)
  • eSports (9)
  • Health Care (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (63)
  • France (2)
  • Canada (2)
  • Israel (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
35M
Group Appearance index
0.77
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.08
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
nVenue 09 Jun 2023 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Sports Seed 3M United States, Texas, Houston
Symitri 20 May 2024 Early Stage Venture 5M

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