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Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC)

Founders Kris W. Kimel Lee Todd

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Total investments 53
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 1.51
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 13
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Medical
  • Therapeutics
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GoWild

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Outdoors
Social Network
$2M02 Nov 2021 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

EdjAnalytics

Analytics
Data Visualization
Information Services
Internet
Software
$5M18 Aug 2020 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

GoWild

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Outdoors
Social Network
$2M15 Jul 2019 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Xometry

3D Printing
E-Commerce
Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
Marketplace
Mechanical Engineering
$25M10 Jul 2018 Maryland, United States

Cloverleaf.me

Data Visualization
Human Resources
Information Technology
$500K09 Apr 2018 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

BehaVR

Health Care
Therapeutics
Virtual Reality
$1M01 Apr 2018 Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States

Switcher Studio

Film Production
Mobile
Video Streaming
$300K28 Feb 2018 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Podchaser

Advertising Platforms
Analytics
Audio
Big Data
Data Visualization
Database
Internet Radio
Podcast
Search Engine
Social Network
01 Jan 2018 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

FlyWire

Analytics
Software
Video
$500K01 Jul 2017 Lexington, Kentucky, United States

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Total investments 53
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.51
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.51

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GoWild

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Outdoors
Social Network
$2M02 Nov 2021 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

EdjAnalytics

Analytics
Data Visualization
Information Services
Internet
Software
$5M18 Aug 2020 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

GoWild

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Outdoors
Social Network
$2M15 Jul 2019 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Xometry

3D Printing
E-Commerce
Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
Marketplace
Mechanical Engineering
$25M10 Jul 2018 Maryland, United States

Cloverleaf.me

Data Visualization
Human Resources
Information Technology
$500K09 Apr 2018 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

BehaVR

Health Care
Therapeutics
Virtual Reality
$1M01 Apr 2018 Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States

Switcher Studio

Film Production
Mobile
Video Streaming
$300K28 Feb 2018 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Podchaser

Advertising Platforms
Analytics
Audio
Big Data
Data Visualization
Database
Internet Radio
Podcast
Search Engine
Social Network
01 Jan 2018 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

FlyWire

Analytics
Software
Video
$500K01 Jul 2017 Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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