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KPG Ventures

Founders Vince Vannelli

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 1.12
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 10
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Social Media
  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Advertising
  • Music
Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Lafayette.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the KPG Ventures, startups are often financed by Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Alsop Louie Partners, Uncork Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Alsop Louie Partners, Quest Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Adams Street Partners, True Ventures.

Comparing to the other companies, this KPG Ventures performs on 11 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2009. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are FinTech, Mobile. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ludic Labs, Sociable Labs, Sportgenic.

The current fund was established by Vince Vannelli. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sendbloom

B2B
Marketing
Sales Automation
$1M15 Jan 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

MindMeld

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Mobile
Semantic Search
Software
$13M18 Dec 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Jildy

Android
Apps
iOS
Mobile
Search Engine
Social Media
$650K01 Aug 2011 Palo Alto, California, United States

TuneUp

Media and Entertainment
Music
Social Media
Software
$4M15 Sep 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Sociable Labs

Digital Media
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
31 Dec 2009 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

GEV Wind Power

E-Commerce
FinTech
$2M21 Jun 2009 New York, New York, United States

TuneUp

Media and Entertainment
Music
Social Media
Software
$3M19 May 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Cake Financial

Finance
FinTech
10 Mar 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Sportgenic

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Social Media
Sports
$10M09 Sep 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 19
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.12
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sendbloom

B2B
Marketing
Sales Automation
$1M15 Jan 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

MindMeld

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Mobile
Semantic Search
Software
$13M18 Dec 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Jildy

Android
Apps
iOS
Mobile
Search Engine
Social Media
$650K01 Aug 2011 Palo Alto, California, United States

TuneUp

Media and Entertainment
Music
Social Media
Software
$4M15 Sep 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Sociable Labs

Digital Media
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
31 Dec 2009 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

GEV Wind Power

E-Commerce
FinTech
$2M21 Jun 2009 New York, New York, United States

TuneUp

Media and Entertainment
Music
Social Media
Software
$3M19 May 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Cake Financial

Finance
FinTech
10 Mar 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Sportgenic

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Social Media
Sports
$10M09 Sep 2008 San Francisco, California, United States
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