Keiretsu Forum

Type

Angel Group/Syndicate

Status

Active

Location

Orinda, United States

Total investments

367

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

293

Rounds per year

15.29

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

29

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSManufacturingMedical DeviceMedical

Summary

Keiretsu Forum is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Advertising, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Telltale Games, InfoBionic, Phyllom Bio Products. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The fund was created by Randy Williams. We also calculated 15 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Keiretsu Forum, startups are often financed by Alliance of Angels, Keiretsu Forum Northwest, Puget Sound Venture Club. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tech Coast Angels, Puget Sound Venture Club, Keiretsu Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Keiretsu Capital, Tech Coast Angels, Sand Hill Angels.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Keiretsu Forum is 5-10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Keiretsu Forum performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
367
Lead investments
14
Exits
29
Rounds per year
15.29
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (76)
  • Health Care (76)
  • Biotechnology (50)
  • Medical (37)
  • Medical Device (28)
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Investments by region
  • United States (238)
  • India (53)
  • Turkey (26)
  • Canada (19)
  • Israel (3)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
12M
Group Appearance index
0.43
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
1.56

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
1800wedding.com 27 Mar 2000 Events, Service Industry, Wedding Late Stage Venture 10M United States, California, Anaheim
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Motion Gestures 11 Jun 2024 Software, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Computer, Sensor Seed 2M Ontario, Kitchener, Canada

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