Lakewest, Inc
CVC
Active
Chicago, United States
40
3M
26
4.00
0.35
8
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- 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) Show 70 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (39)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2013
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- 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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