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26Portfolio Exits
13About Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose is an angel investor who generally invests 25-50K in young, emerging companies with a focus on investing in early stage consumer internet startups. Rose aims to assist portfolio companies through efforts and expertise focused on product feature design, user interaction, product development, strategy, and business development. Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg and WeFollow.

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Aug 23, 2023
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Kevin Rose Investments
26 Investments
Kevin Rose has made 26 investments. Their latest investment was in Endel as part of their Series A on September 9, 2020.

Kevin Rose Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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9/23/2020 | Series A | Endel | $5M | Yes | Amazon Alexa Fund, Impulse Ventures, Kevin Rose, Plus Eight Equity Partners, SleepScore Ventures, Target Global, Techstars Ventures, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and Waverly Capital | 3 |
8/2/2019 | Seed VC | Magic Spoon | $5.5M | Yes | 14 | |
5/20/2015 | Series A | Algolia | $18.3M | Yes | 13 | |
4/2/2014 | Series E | |||||
10/18/2012 | Seed |
Date | 9/23/2020 | 8/2/2019 | 5/20/2015 | 4/2/2014 | 10/18/2012 |
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Round | Series A | Seed VC | Series A | Series E | Seed |
Company | Endel | Magic Spoon | Algolia | ||
Amount | $5M | $5.5M | $18.3M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Amazon Alexa Fund, Impulse Ventures, Kevin Rose, Plus Eight Equity Partners, SleepScore Ventures, Target Global, Techstars Ventures, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and Waverly Capital | ||||
Sources | 3 | 14 | 13 |
Kevin Rose Portfolio Exits
13 Portfolio Exits
Kevin Rose has 13 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Block on November 19, 2015.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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11/19/2015 | IPO | Public | 2 | ||
10/20/2015 | Acquired | 1 | |||
8/17/2015 | Acquired | 1 | |||
Date | 11/19/2015 | 10/20/2015 | 8/17/2015 | ||
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Exit | IPO | Acquired | Acquired | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | Public | ||||
Sources | 2 | 1 | 1 |