Kettle Partners

Total investments

19

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

9

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.53

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareSaaSCloud ComputingMusicComputerAdvertisingTelecommunicationsWirelessCommunications Infrastructure

Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Kettle Partners, startups are often financed by Canaan Partners, ABS Ventures, JK&B Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are JK&B Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Enterprise Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by JK&B Capital, Canaan Partners, ABS Ventures.

The top activity for fund was in 2000. Opposing the other organizations, this Kettle Partners works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. 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.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Active Network, Novarra, SurePayroll The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Information Technology. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
4
Exits
5
Follow on index
0.53
Investments by industry
  • Software (6)
  • Internet (6)
  • SaaS (5)
  • Cloud Computing (4)
  • Computer (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
122M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.43
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Active Network 09 Nov 2000 Software, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Computer, Communications Infrastructure Early Stage Venture 21M United States, Texas, Dallas
Emperative 19 Jun 2000 Internet, Software, Information Technology, Robotics, Telecommunications, Digital Media, Wireless Early Stage Venture 20M United States, Massachusetts

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