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Keensight Capital

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 1.25
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 13
Key employees 13
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LDR Holding

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Hardware
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical
Medical Device
Software
$2M23 Dec 2005 Austin, Texas, United States

picoChip

Enterprise Software
Telecommunications
Wireless
$20M22 Jun 2005 Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom

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Total investments 30
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.25
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.40

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LDR Holding

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Hardware
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical
Medical Device
Software
$2M23 Dec 2005 Austin, Texas, United States

picoChip

Enterprise Software
Telecommunications
Wireless
$20M22 Jun 2005 Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom
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