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PO Box 7
Los Gatos, CA 95031
Phone: 408-483-5566
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Consumer Products & Services
Food & Agriculture
Life Sciences & Healthcare
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Founded in 2016, Knudsen Capital is a family office that invests in early-stage, high-growth businesses that change their industries and improve lives -- individually and on a global scale. The firm is driven by three key criteria for investing which include purpose, people, and profit. Knudsen Capital seeks out companies that are: On-trend and/or directly relate to Stay-at-Home activities; Experiencing exceptional growth rates in today's climate; Effectively captures DTC business (including strong own site sales and/or mastery of Amazon); Have high gross margins (40%+); and have a high LTV-CAC ratio (<4 and profitable on first order). Founder Brent Knudsen is Managing Partner and founder of Partnership Capital Growth. Prior to founding Partnership Capital Growth in 2006, Brent was one of the original partners at North Castle Partners, a leading private equity firm targeting investments in healthy living. Prior to joining North Castle in 1997, Brent invested in and ran a number of growth companies in the healthy living arena including GolfWeb (sold to CBS Sportsline), Full Force (sold to Specialized Bicycles) and Newport Surf Company (sold to Pacific Eyes & T's). Over $30 million has been invested.
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Investment Firm Key
VC = Venture Capital
PE = Private Equity
A = Angel
I = Incubator
MB = Merchant Bank
VD = Venture Debt
FI = Family Investment Office
FOF = Fund of Funds
ED = Economic Development Office
TT = Technology Transfer Office
CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
SEC = Secondary Purchaser
HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
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| COMPANY STAGE | REVENUE |
| Venture Capital | |
Seed Stage
(includes "pre-seed," or
concept stage) | No Revenue |
| Early Stage | Minimal
Revenue |
Growth Stage
(also called Mid-stage) | $2M-$7M |
Expansion Stage
(also called Late-stage) | $7M and greater |
| Private Equity | |
| Lower Middle Market | $10M-$249M |
| Middle Market | $250M-$499M |
| Upper Middle Market | $500M-$1B |
| Large Cap | >$1B |
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