Lakewest, Inc

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

40

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

4.00

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceInternetSoftwareMobileRecruitingEducationFashionSearch EngineShoes

Summary

Lakewest Venture Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Lakewest Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Chicago Ventures, Jumpstart Ventures, FireStarter Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Jumpstart Ventures, Corazon Capital, FireStarter Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Chicago Ventures, Jumpstart Ventures, Wintrust Ventures.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from Lakewest Venture Partners is 10-50 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Opposing the other organizations, this Lakewest Venture Partners works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Fashion. 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 some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Scrollmotion d/b/a Ingage, Zipwhip, SpotHero.

The current fund was established by Jonathan McCulloch. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
United States
Check size
50K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
0
Exits
8
Rounds per year
4.00
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (10)
  • Mobile (9)
  • Software (8)
  • Internet (6)
  • Recruiting (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (39)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2013

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
40M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
5.98
Strategy success index
0.10

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