Kindred Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

112

Average round size

82M

Portfolio companies

74

Rounds per year

11.20

Lead investments

22

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechFinanceHealth CareAppsMarketplaceCryptocurrencyBlockchain

Summary

Kindred Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Kindred Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, True Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Slow Ventures, Village Global, Union Square Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polychain, Tusk Ventures, SV Angel.

This organization was formed by Steve Jang. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Ethereum, Blockchain. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Coinbase, Atrium LTS, Blue Bottle Coffee Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Kindred Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. This Kindred Ventures works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataClimate techConsumer/RetailBlockchain/Crypto/Web3 Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
250K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 312000000
Fund raised date
2023-06-27

Analytics

Total investments
112
Lead investments
22
Exits
4
Rounds per year
11.20
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (23)
  • Blockchain (20)
  • Financial Services (17)
  • Cryptocurrency (16)
  • FinTech (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (86)
  • India (1)
  • China (1)
  • Israel (2)
  • Switzerland (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
287M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.05
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Particle.News 11 Jun 2024 Early Stage Venture 10M United States, California, San Rafael
Taika 26 Aug 2021 Food and Beverage Seed 2M United States, California, Irvine

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