Lake Street Capital

Total investments

7

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.37

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InfrastructureInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareProduct DesignMarketingHardwareSemiconductorElectronics

Summary

Lake Street Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2003. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Lake Street Capital, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sigma Partners, Sequoia Capital, Riverside Management Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Menlo Ventures, MMV Capital Partners.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LucidMedia, Sequence Design, Frictionless Commerce. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Advertising Platforms, Advertising.

The fund was created by Gretchen Knoell.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2005. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2012. Comparing to the other companies, this Lake Street Capital performs on 21 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Enterprise Software (2)
  • Software (2)
  • Marketing (2)
  • Product Design (1)
  • Information Technology (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (6)
Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
12

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Celion Networks 08 Dec 2003 Enterprise, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Optical Communication Late Stage Venture 11M United States, Texas, Richardson

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