KR1

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Douglas, Isle of Man

Total investments

44

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

5.50

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.18

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceNetwork SecurityBitcoinCryptocurrencyBlockchain

Summary

KR1 is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Douglas. The venture was found in Europe in Isle of Man.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 57 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from KR1 the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Apps, Bitcoin. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Switzerland. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DFINITY, Bancor, Melonport

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the KR1, startups are often financed by Kenetic, FastForward Innovations, Connor Benoit-Milner. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pantera Capital, Kinetic Capital, 8 Decimal Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NEO Global Capital (NGC), Tribe Accelerator, Proxy Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Blockchain/Crypto/Web3
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
44
Lead investments
12
Rounds per year
5.50
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Blockchain (23)
  • Software (11)
  • FinTech (10)
  • Cryptocurrency (10)
  • Financial Services (9)
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Investments by region
  • Switzerland (5)
  • United States (11)
  • Singapore (4)
  • United Kingdom (8)
  • France (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
83M
Group Appearance index
0.64
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Blocksmith 03 Jul 2018 Blockchain Seed 68K England, London, United Kingdom
Equilibrium 08 Apr 2021 Software, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency Early Stage Venture 2M

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