Kodiak Venture Partners

Total investments

139

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

65

Rounds per year

5.56

Lead investments

30

Follow on index

0.53

Exits

34

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingProduct DesignSemiconductorTelecommunicationsWireless

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
139
Lead investments
30
Exits
34
Rounds per year
5.56
Follow on index
0.53
Investments by industry
  • Software (57)
  • Enterprise Software (28)
  • Semiconductor (26)
  • Wireless (25)
  • Information Technology (23)
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Investments by region
  • United States (102)
  • Canada (22)
  • United Kingdom (7)
  • Japan (3)
  • China (2)
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Peak activity year
2004
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
47M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
0.41
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Allegro Diagnostics 07 Mar 2008 Therapeutic Devices, Diagnostic Equipment, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Education, Medical Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Massachusetts
Emergent Payments 14 Nov 2011 Internet, Payments Early Stage Venture 8M United States, California, Palo Alto

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