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Kodiak Venture Partners

Founders Dave Furneaux

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Total investments 139
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 65
Rounds per year 5.56
Lead investments 30
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.53
Exits 34
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Semiconductor
  • Wireless
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1999 was created Kodiak Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Wellesley. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Dave Furneaux. The overall number of key employees were 7.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Kodiak Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Sigma Partners, GrandBanks Capital, Borealis Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs, General Catalyst, VenGrowth Asset Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Goldman Sachs, Borealis Ventures.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Kodiak Venture Partners works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Kodiak Venture Partners is 10-50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2004. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Appnexus, Tropic Networks, Emergent Payments. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Telecommunications. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Emergent Payments

Internet
Payments
$6M01 Jul 2013 Palo Alto, California, United States

Emergent Payments

Internet
Payments
$8M14 Nov 2011 Palo Alto, California, United States

Fluxion Biosciences

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Market Research
$12M09 Oct 2011 South San Francisco, California, United States

Allegro Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Diagnostic Equipment
Education
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Therapeutic Devices
$5M07 Jul 2011 Massachusetts, United States

ideeli

E-Commerce
Retail
Shopping
$41M28 Apr 2011 New York, New York, United States

Upland Qvidian

Consulting
Document Preparation
Information Technology
IT Management
Presentation Software
Professional Services
SaaS
Sales
Software
Virtual Reality
$27M04 Jun 2010 Massachusetts, United States

ideeli

E-Commerce
Retail
Shopping
$20M07 Dec 2009 New York, New York, United States

AppNexus

Ad Network
Advertising
Internet
SaaS
Software
$5M10 Nov 2009 New York, United States

TRA

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Business Development
Marketing
$13M07 May 2009 New York, United States

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Total investments 139
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 5.56
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 30
Follow on index 0.53
Exits 34
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Emergent Payments

Internet
Payments
$6M01 Jul 2013 Palo Alto, California, United States

Emergent Payments

Internet
Payments
$8M14 Nov 2011 Palo Alto, California, United States

Fluxion Biosciences

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Market Research
$12M09 Oct 2011 South San Francisco, California, United States

Allegro Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Diagnostic Equipment
Education
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Therapeutic Devices
$5M07 Jul 2011 Massachusetts, United States

ideeli

E-Commerce
Retail
Shopping
$41M28 Apr 2011 New York, New York, United States

Upland Qvidian

Consulting
Document Preparation
Information Technology
IT Management
Presentation Software
Professional Services
SaaS
Sales
Software
Virtual Reality
$27M04 Jun 2010 Massachusetts, United States

ideeli

E-Commerce
Retail
Shopping
$20M07 Dec 2009 New York, New York, United States

AppNexus

Ad Network
Advertising
Internet
SaaS
Software
$5M10 Nov 2009 New York, United States

TRA

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Business Development
Marketing
$13M07 May 2009 New York, United States
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