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The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Founders William H. Draper

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Total investments 48
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$296K
Portfolio companies 47
Rounds per year 1.60
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.02
Exits 1
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Non Profit
  • Education
  • Association
  • Health Care
  • Financial Services
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Emata

Agriculture
Financial Services
$2M14 Sep 2023 Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

accesSOS

Messaging
Mobile Apps
Non Profit
Public Safety
01 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Numida

Apps
Business Development
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
Mobile
$2M13 Apr 2021 Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

Phool.co

Environmental Engineering
$1M27 Aug 2020 Uttar Pradesh

Jaza

Emerging Markets
Energy
Solar
$1M09 Mar 2020 Nova Scotia

Cowtribe

Subscription Service
Veterinary
$300K09 Nov 2018 Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana

Kinvolved

EdTech
Education
Impact Investing
$1M05 Nov 2018 New York, New York, United States

macro-eyes

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Scheduling
Software
Supply Chain Management
$300K26 Aug 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States

EdTech
Education
Impact Investing
01 May 2018 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 48
Average round size 296K
Rounds per year 1.60
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.02
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.17

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Emata

Agriculture
Financial Services
$2M14 Sep 2023 Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

accesSOS

Messaging
Mobile Apps
Non Profit
Public Safety
01 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Numida

Apps
Business Development
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
Mobile
$2M13 Apr 2021 Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

Phool.co

Environmental Engineering
$1M27 Aug 2020 Uttar Pradesh

Jaza

Emerging Markets
Energy
Solar
$1M09 Mar 2020 Nova Scotia

Cowtribe

Subscription Service
Veterinary
$300K09 Nov 2018 Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana

Kinvolved

EdTech
Education
Impact Investing
$1M05 Nov 2018 New York, New York, United States

macro-eyes

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Scheduling
Software
Supply Chain Management
$300K26 Aug 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States

EdTech
Education
Impact Investing
01 May 2018 New York, New York, United States
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