Knollwood Investment Advisory

Status

Active

Location

Hunt Valley, United States

Total investments

45

Average round size

27M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

2.14

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologySaaSMobile AppsCyber SecuritySocial Media

Summary

Knollwood Investment Advisory is the famous VC, which was founded in 2003. The main department of described VC is located in the Hunt Valley. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Knollwood Investment Advisory, startups are often financed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Uncork Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lightspeed Venture Partners, Union Grove Venture Partners, Uncork Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, Menlo Ventures.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Knollwood Investment Advisory the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Knollwood Investment Advisory performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Casper, Arctic Wolf Networks, Reflektive Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Retail, Network Security. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
45
Lead investments
1
Exits
4
Rounds per year
2.14
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • FinTech (7)
  • SaaS (6)
  • Internet (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (27)
  • India (2)
  • United Arab Emirates (7)
  • Canada (1)
  • Namibia (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
406M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.06

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
NymCard 08 Jun 2022 Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Banking Early Stage Venture 22M Abu Dhabi Emirate, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
penny software 15 Apr 2024 Software, B2B, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Procurement Seed Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia

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