Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC)

Summary

Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC) is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1987. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Lexington. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Handle, Smart Farm Systems, Revon Systems. 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 Pharmaceutical, E-Commerce. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The average startup value when the investment from Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC) is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC) performs on 5 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Kris W. Kimel, Lee Todd. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC), startups are often financed by The Perkins Fund, Bluegrass Angels, Techstars Chicago (Formerly Excelerate Labs). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Commonwealth Seed Capital, Bluegrass Angels, Queen City Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tate & Lyle Ventures, Lunsford Capital, Bluegrass Angels.