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Knight Enterprise Fund

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Total investments 101
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 61
Rounds per year 8.42
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 26
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Video
  • Digital Media
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Social Media
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NewsGuard

Broadcasting
Digital Media
Journalism
News
$6M06 Mar 2018 New York, United States

WhereBy.Us

Advertising
Content
Journalism
Local
Local Advertising
Media and Entertainment
Mobile Apps
Social Media
Travel
Video
01 Mar 2018 Miami, Florida, United States

Trint

Content
Information Technology
Video
$3M08 Jun 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Soofa

Advertising
Hardware
Internet of Things
Sensor
Social
$2M09 May 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Blavity, Inc.

Social Media
$1M12 Apr 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Newsela

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Language Learning
01 Feb 2017 New York, United States

The Mighty

Communities
Health Care
mHealth
Psychology
Social Network
Wellness
06 Dec 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Pop Up Archive

Audio
Digital Media
Podcast
SEO
$200K17 Nov 2016 Oakland, California, United States

Blavity, Inc.

Social Media
$1M12 Sep 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

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Total investments 101
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 8.42
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 26
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NewsGuard

Broadcasting
Digital Media
Journalism
News
$6M06 Mar 2018 New York, United States

WhereBy.Us

Advertising
Content
Journalism
Local
Local Advertising
Media and Entertainment
Mobile Apps
Social Media
Travel
Video
01 Mar 2018 Miami, Florida, United States

Trint

Content
Information Technology
Video
$3M08 Jun 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Soofa

Advertising
Hardware
Internet of Things
Sensor
Social
$2M09 May 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Blavity, Inc.

Social Media
$1M12 Apr 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Newsela

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Language Learning
01 Feb 2017 New York, United States

The Mighty

Communities
Health Care
mHealth
Psychology
Social Network
Wellness
06 Dec 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Pop Up Archive

Audio
Digital Media
Podcast
SEO
$200K17 Nov 2016 Oakland, California, United States

Blavity, Inc.

Social Media
$1M12 Sep 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States
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