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Serent Capital

Founders David Kennedy Kevin Frick

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Total investments 61
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 56
Rounds per year 3.81
Lead investments 23
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 13
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
Summary

Serent Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Serent Capital works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Serent Capital, startups are often financed by Recurring Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Matrix Partners, Impact Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Main Street Capital, Impact Venture Capital.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline MinuteKey, Next Gear Solutions, Cardon Outreach We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Computer.

This organization was formed by David Kennedy, Kevin Frick. The overall number of key employees were 5.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LinkIt!

Analytics
E-Learning
Education
19 Dec 2022 New York, New York, United States

Pondera Solutions

GovTech
Information Services
Information Technology
Risk Management
Software
04 Aug 2017 California, United States
News
BQE Software Secures Significant Growth Investment from Serent Capital

– BQE, a leading cloud-based software provider to professional service firms, recently announced that the company received a significant investment from Serent Capital, a growth-focused private equity firm that invests in technology and tech-enabled software companies.
– Founded by Shafat Qazi in 1995, BQE Software quickly became a leader in time billing and project management for professional service firms with its original product, BillQuick.
– After acquiring ArchiOffice and EngineerOffice in 2009, BQE solidified its foothold in the architecture and engineering industries, while expanding the company’s offerings to include project accounting and human resource management.

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Total investments 61
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 3.81
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 23
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.10

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Analytics
E-Learning
Education
19 Dec 2022 New York, New York, United States

Pondera Solutions

GovTech
Information Services
Information Technology
Risk Management
Software
04 Aug 2017 California, United States
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