Knight Enterprise Fund
101
2M
61
8.42
3
0.38
26
- Areas of investment
Summary
The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Miami. The company was established in North America in United States.
Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. When the investment is from Knight Enterprise Fund the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Knight Enterprise Fund works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2014.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Knight Enterprise Fund, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Techstars, Lerer Hippeau. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Advancit Capital, Y Combinator, Lerer Hippeau. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Haystack, BDMI, Urban Us.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Audio. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vidado, Newsela, Change.org.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 101
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 26
- Rounds per year
- 8.42
- Follow on index
- 0.38
- Investments by industry
- Software (24)
- Video (20)
- Digital Media (19)
- Media and Entertainment (17)
- Social Media (16) Show 111 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (95)
- United Kingdom (3)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 187M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.69
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.46
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripple | 06 Oct 2015 | Internet, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain | Early Stage Venture | 4M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| Vidado | 24 Sep 2012 | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Cloud Data Services, Data Integration, InsurTech | Seed | United States, California, Oakland |
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