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Kingston

Founders David Sun John Tu

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Total investments 4
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.11
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Hardware
  • Enterprise Software
  • Data Center Automation
Summary

In 1987 was created Kingston, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Fountain Valley. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Kingston, startups are often financed by Globespan Capital Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, DFJ. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Phison Electronics, DH Capital, Marker Hill Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DH Capital, Phison Electronics, Iron Gate Capital (IGC).

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, Nanotechnology. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Amplify.net, Liqid, Liqid. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Liqid

Data Center
Data Center Automation
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$11M10 May 2017 Colorado, United States

Liqid

Data Center
Data Center Automation
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$9M20 May 2015 Colorado, United States

Amplify.net

Hardware
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$6M08 Dec 1999 Fremont, California, United States

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Total investments 4
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 0.11
Peak activity year 1999
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.25
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Liqid

Data Center
Data Center Automation
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$11M10 May 2017 Colorado, United States

Liqid

Data Center
Data Center Automation
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$9M20 May 2015 Colorado, United States

Amplify.net

Hardware
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$6M08 Dec 1999 Fremont, California, United States
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