The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Total investments

54

Average round size

263K

Portfolio companies

50

Rounds per year

1.80

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Grant
Areas of investment
Financial ServicesInformation TechnologyHealth CareCommunitiesEducationNon ProfitAssociationLegalPublic SafetyCharity

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kinvolved, Watsi, Simprints Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Crowdfunding.

The fund was created by William H. Draper.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, startups are often financed by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Y Combinator, United States Agency for International Development. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are u2i, Y Combinator, Vinod Khosla. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by u2i, Twilio.org Impact Fund, Tencent Holdings.

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Analytics

Total investments
54
Lead investments
9
Exits
1
Rounds per year
1.80
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Non Profit (24)
  • Education (12)
  • Association (12)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Legal (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (35)
  • Uganda (4)
  • Canada (1)
  • India (3)
  • Ghana (2)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
160K
Group Appearance index
0.17
Avg. company exit year
9

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Altitun 22 Dec 1999 Telecommunications Early Stage Venture 10M United States, California, Irvine
Numida 13 Apr 2021 Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile, Apps, Insurance, Business Development Seed 2M Uganda, Central Region, Kampala
Recidiviz 01 Jan 2022 Analytics, Cloud Data Services, Legal, Legal Tech Seed United States, California, San Francisco

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