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Lake Street Capital

Founders Gretchen Knoell

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.37
Lead investments 0
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • Marketing
  • Product Design
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Internet
Marketing
$8M04 Dec 2008 Virginia, United States

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$23M08 Aug 2007 San Jose, California, United States

Celion Networks

Enterprise
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$11M08 Dec 2003 Richardson, Texas, United States

Network Elements

$15M19 Nov 2003 -

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Total investments 7
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 0.37
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 0
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Internet
Marketing
$8M04 Dec 2008 Virginia, United States

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$23M08 Aug 2007 San Jose, California, United States

Celion Networks

Enterprise
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$11M08 Dec 2003 Richardson, Texas, United States

Network Elements

$15M19 Nov 2003 -
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