Kensington Capital Partners Limited

Total investments

70

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

59

Rounds per year

2.50

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

12

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsMobileSaaSAppsRestaurantsRoboticsManufacturing

Summary

Kensington Capital Partners Limited appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Kensington Capital Partners Limited works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Kensington Capital Partners Limited, startups are often financed by Tom Williams, Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BDC Venture Capital, Relay Ventures, Hedgewood. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Relay Ventures, Napier Park Global Capital, Mayfield Fund.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Brand Marketing, SaaS. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TouchBistro, Influitive, NatureBox.

Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
70
Lead investments
12
Exits
12
Rounds per year
2.50
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (22)
  • SaaS (12)
  • Apps (11)
  • E-Commerce (10)
  • Internet (8)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (48)
  • United States (19)
  • Spain (1)
  • Israel (1)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
118M
Group Appearance index
0.74
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
4.29
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Avidbots 27 Sep 2022 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Hardware, Sensor Late Stage Venture 70M Ontario, Kitchener, Canada
Floop Technologies 24 Jul 2014 Mobile, Advertising, Ad Exchange Seed 680K Canada, Quebec, Montreal
ICHunt.com 15 Mar 2021 Trading Platform Late Stage Venture 100M Guangdong Province, Futian District, China
OTTO Motors 01 Jun 2020 Automotive, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial Automation Late Stage Venture 29M Ontario, Kitchener, Canada

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