Keensight Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

30

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

1.25

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

13

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalBiopharma

Summary

Keensight Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The company was established in Europe in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LDR Holding, LINKBYNET, Oodrive. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 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 - France. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Identity Management, Software.

Besides them, we counted 13 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Keensight Capital, startups are often financed by Austin Ventures, Rothschild & Co., Pond Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Isai, Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild & Co.. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild & Co., Intel Capital.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This Keensight Capital works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistHealthcare
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 36 more
Check size
11M — 438M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 2800000000
Fund raised date
2023-09-22

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
9
Exits
13
Rounds per year
1.25
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • Manufacturing (7)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Health Care (4)
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Investments by region
  • France (13)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • United States (5)
  • Portugal (2)
  • Netherlands (1)
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Peak activity year
2005
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
103M
Group Appearance index
0.40
Avg. company exit year
18
Avg. multiplicator
8.85

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
picoChip 22 Jun 2005 Enterprise Software, Telecommunications, Wireless Late Stage Venture 20M Bath and North East Somerset, Bath, United Kingdom

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