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Kinetic Ventures

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 1.77
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 15
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Wireless
  • Information Technology
  • Hardware
Summary

Kinetic Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1985. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Chevy Chase.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Kinetic Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Kinetic Ventures performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Kinetic Ventures, startups are often financed by Labrador Ventures, ATDC, ATA Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Labrador Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Labrador Ventures, ATDC, ATA Ventures.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Energy. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline iVivity, Caymas Systems, CODEON

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ando Money

Banking
Financial Services
Impact Investing
$6M21 Oct 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Carputty

Automotive
Consumer
Financial Services
FinTech
$7M06 Aug 2021 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Wisio

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Social Media Marketing
$1M21 Jun 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Everyware

Billing
Financial Services
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Payments
Software
$5M08 Oct 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

Kobiton

Android
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
iOS
Mobile
Quality Assurance
SaaS
Usability Testing
$5M21 Aug 2019 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Kobiton

Android
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
iOS
Mobile
Quality Assurance
SaaS
Usability Testing
$3M25 Sep 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Optii Solutions

Hospitality
Software
Training
$4M26 Jun 2018 Austin, Texas, United States

Instant Financial

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$11M17 Apr 2018 British Columbia

ThunderCore

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Software
$37M01 Mar 2018 Sunnyvale, California, United States
News
Carputty Raises $7.2M in Seed Funding

– Carputty, a direct lender re-engineering the car financing business.
– The company has raised $7.2m in a seed round led by Kickstart Fund.
– The funding round also includes a significant investment from others, including Kinetic Ventures, University Growth Fund, Aries Capital Partners, and Atlanta-based entrepreneur John Dancu.

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Total investments 69
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 1.77
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ando Money

Banking
Financial Services
Impact Investing
$6M21 Oct 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Carputty

Automotive
Consumer
Financial Services
FinTech
$7M06 Aug 2021 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Wisio

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Social Media Marketing
$1M21 Jun 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Everyware

Billing
Financial Services
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Payments
Software
$5M08 Oct 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

Kobiton

Android
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
iOS
Mobile
Quality Assurance
SaaS
Usability Testing
$5M21 Aug 2019 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Kobiton

Android
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
iOS
Mobile
Quality Assurance
SaaS
Usability Testing
$3M25 Sep 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Optii Solutions

Hospitality
Software
Training
$4M26 Jun 2018 Austin, Texas, United States

Instant Financial

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$11M17 Apr 2018 British Columbia

ThunderCore

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Software
$37M01 Mar 2018 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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