Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

Type

Hedge fund

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

384

Average round size

160M

Portfolio companies

294

Rounds per year

8.00

Lead investments

139

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

100

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSManufacturingMedicalEnergy

Summary

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1976. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 44 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is more than 1 billion dollars. This Kohlberg Kravis Roberts works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

This organization was formed by George R Roberts, Henry Kravis, Jerome Kohlberg. The overall number of key employees were 28.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, startups are often financed by Bullpen Capital, Pentech Ventures, Insight Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TenEleven Ventures, Aisling Capital, Warburg Pincus. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Fidelity Management and Research Company, TenEleven Ventures, Google.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Financial Services. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ByteDance, Lyft, Epic Games Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get 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.

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Analytics

Total investments
384
Lead investments
139
Exits
100
Rounds per year
8.00
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (62)
  • Health Care (47)
  • Internet (40)
  • Financial Services (39)
  • E-Commerce (38)
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Investments by region
  • United States (176)
  • India (38)
  • China (29)
  • United Kingdom (23)
  • United Arab Emirates (1)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
42
Number of Decacorns
55
Number of Minotaurs
46

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.52
Avg. company exit year
20
Avg. multiplicator
3.61
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
EchoNous 28 Sep 2017 Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Early Stage Venture 35M United States, Washington
Hetao101 25 Mar 2021 Late Stage Venture 200M Beijing, Haidian, China

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