Kennet Partners

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

104

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

74

Rounds per year

3.85

Lead investments

32

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

42

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducationAdvertisingSales Automation

Summary

Kennet Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1997. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Kennet Partners, startups are often financed by The North West Fund, OTC Asset Management, Vision Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vision Capital, Toba Capital, Northcap. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toba Capital, Insight Partners, Ventech.

This organization was formed by Michael Elias. The overall number of key employees were 5.

The real fund results show that this VC is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Kennet Partners is 10-50 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This Kennet Partners works on 20 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2005. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2008.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vlocity, NTRglobal, MedeAnalytics. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Advertising. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseCybersecurityCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/RetailHealthcare Show 3 more
Stage focus
Series CSeries DSeries FSeries E
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
104
Lead investments
32
Exits
42
Rounds per year
3.85
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Software (45)
  • Enterprise Software (28)
  • SaaS (25)
  • Information Technology (20)
  • Mobile (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (55)
  • United Kingdom (23)
  • France (6)
  • Spain (4)
  • Netherlands (7)
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Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
65M
Group Appearance index
0.60
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
5.88
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CULedger 29 Jan 2019 Financial Services, Information Technology, Blockchain, Call Center Early Stage Venture 10M United States, Colorado, Denver
Fluid Topics 05 Apr 2024 Early Stage Venture 17M Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
Grip 18 Feb 2021 Enterprise Software, Event Management, Events, Professional Networking Early Stage Venture 13M England, London, United Kingdom
LUXROBO 01 Oct 2015 Robotics, Electronics, Internet of Things Seed 100K South Korea, Gyeonggi-do

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