KCRise Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Kansas City, United States

Total investments

62

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

43

Rounds per year

7.75

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareInformation TechnologyHuman ResourcesArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareWellnessBig DataSocial MediaWearables

Summary

KCRise Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The main department of described VC is located in the Kansas City. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the KCRise Fund, startups are often financed by OCA Ventures, Woodside O'Brien, Wintrust Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Royal Street Ventures, Woodside O'Brien, OCA Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Woodside O'Brien, Royal Street Ventures, OCA Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AstrumU, Inc., SpiderOak, Pepper. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Automotive, Artificial Intelligence. The fund has 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. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get 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.

The fund was created by Darcy Howe. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from KCRise Fund is 10-50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this KCRise Fund performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2017.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistLogisticsMobilityGovtech/LegaltechCybersecurity Show 4 more
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Geo focus

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 34000000
Fund raised date
2023-01-22

Analytics

Total investments
62
Lead investments
2
Exits
3
Rounds per year
7.75
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Software (18)
  • Information Technology (11)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
  • Automotive (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (59)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
32M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
33.50
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Daupler 08 Jul 2021 Software, Information Technology, Robotics, GovTech, CRM Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Missouri, Kansas City
Healium dba StoryUp Studios 20 Feb 2023 Fitness, Health Care, Wellness, Neuroscience, Augmented Reality, Therapeutics, Digital Media, Video Games, Wearables, Human Computer Interaction Seed 3M United States, Missouri, Columbia

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