Keensight Capital
Venture Capital
Active
London, United Kingdom
30
3M
28
1.25
9
0.07
13
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Geo focus
- 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) Show 48 more
- Investments by region
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- France (13)
- United Kingdom (4)
- United States (5)
- Portugal (2)
- Netherlands (1) Show 4 more
- Peak activity year
- 2005
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- 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 |
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picoChip | 22 Jun 2005 | Enterprise Software, Telecommunications, Wireless | Late Stage Venture | 20M | Bath and North East Somerset, Bath, United Kingdom |
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