Kelso & Company

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

12

Average round size

297M

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.23

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
E-CommerceFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareManufacturingLife ScienceEnergyService IndustryOil and Gas

Summary

Kelso & Company appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1971. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Kelso & Company, startups are often financed by eHatchery, Warburg Pincus, Temasek Holdings. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Warburg Pincus, Temasek Holdings, iXL. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Warburg Pincus, The Jordan Company, Temasek Holdings.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Kelso & Company performs on 0 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight The Consumer Financial. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Oil and Gas, Medical. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Geo focus
CanadaUnited States

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 3250000000
Fund raised date
2023-10-01

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
4
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.23
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (4)
  • Health Care (3)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Finance (2)
  • E-Commerce (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Group Appearance index
0.58
Avg. company exit year
20
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Refresh Mental Health 01 Dec 2020 Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Personal Health Seed United States, Florida, Jacksonville Beach

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