Kresge Foundation

Total investments

53

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

42

Rounds per year

0.54

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

2

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSCommunitiesEducationRenewable EnergyNon ProfitLegal

Summary

Kresge Foundation is the famous VC, which was founded in 1924. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Much.

The fund was created by Sebastian Spering Kresge.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Environmental Consulting, CRM. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 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 - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kymeta, Echodyne, Connecticut Green Bank.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Kresge Foundation, startups are often financed by Lux Capital, Felicis Ventures, Bill Gates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lux Capital, Felicis Ventures, Bill Gates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lux Capital, Bill Gates, Felicis Ventures.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Kresge Foundation performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
53
Lead investments
0
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.54
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Communities (17)
  • Non Profit (10)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Education (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (51)
Peak activity year
2019

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
309K
Group Appearance index
0.25
Avg. company exit year
8

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fluxx 26 Aug 2015 Impact Investing, Information Technology, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Big Data, Enterprise Applications, Non Profit, CRM Early Stage Venture 6M United States, California, San Francisco
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