Kern Whelan Capital
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14M
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0.17
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- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Kern Whelan Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.
The current fund was established by J. P. Whelan, Jay Kern.
The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Kern Whelan Capital works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Kern Whelan Capital, startups are often financed by Simon Equity Partners, LLC, Catamount Ventures, Polar Capital Management Inc.. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Simon Equity Partners, LLC, Rivenrock Capital, Polar Capital Management Inc.. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OpenView Venture Partners, Multiplier Capital, JP Morgan Chase.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Crowdsourcing. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight UserTesting, InvestCloud, Inc., Shopatron.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 0.38
- Follow on index
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Software (4)
- Mobile (2)
- Outsourcing (2)
- Cloud Management (2)
- FinTech (2) Show 12 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (6)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 16
- Group Appearance index
- 0.83
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InvestCloud | 08 Oct 2015 | Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Cloud Management, Outsourcing | Early Stage Venture | 45M | United States, California |
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