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Kern Whelan Capital

Founders J. P. Whelan Jay Kern

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.38
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Outsourcing
  • Cloud Management
  • FinTech
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Quri

Mobile
Software
$17M14 Oct 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

InvestCloud, Inc.

Cloud Management
Financial Services
FinTech
Outsourcing
Software
$45M08 Oct 2015 California, United States

InvestCloud, Inc.

Cloud Management
Financial Services
FinTech
Outsourcing
Software
$8M15 Oct 2013 California, United States

UserTesting

Consumer Research
Market Research
Marketing Automation
Product Management
SaaS
Sales Automation
Software
$3M06 Sep 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Shopatron

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Mobile
$6M01 Oct 2007 California, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 0.38
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Quri

Mobile
Software
$17M14 Oct 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

InvestCloud, Inc.

Cloud Management
Financial Services
FinTech
Outsourcing
Software
$45M08 Oct 2015 California, United States

InvestCloud, Inc.

Cloud Management
Financial Services
FinTech
Outsourcing
Software
$8M15 Oct 2013 California, United States

UserTesting

Consumer Research
Market Research
Marketing Automation
Product Management
SaaS
Sales Automation
Software
$3M06 Sep 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Shopatron

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Mobile
$6M01 Oct 2007 California, United States
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