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Anorak Ventures

Founders Greg Castle

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Total investments 82
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 62
Rounds per year 10.25
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Virtual Reality
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Anorak Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars, Y Combinator, SOSV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, The Venture Reality Fund, Presence Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Matrix Partners, Future Shape.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Vivid Vision, RosieReality, Phiar Technologies, Inc. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Health Care.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Anorak Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

This organization was formed by Greg Castle. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RagaAI Inc.

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
$4M23 Jan 2024 Fremont, California, United States

Magma

Collaboration
Software
$5M12 Dec 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

AstroBeam

PC Games
Virtual Reality
$3M08 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Train Fitness

Artificial Intelligence
Fitness
Software
$2M21 Jun 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

TRL11

Aerospace
Battery
Manufacturing
Sensor
$3M23 May 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Blacktop Hoops

Computer
Online Games
PC Games
Virtual Reality
$5M18 Apr 2023 -

Irrigreen

Internet
$225K29 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Scenario

3D Technology
Information Technology
Software
$6M19 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Prisms of Reality

E-Learning
STEM Education
Virtual Reality
$4M02 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
SafelyYou Closes $19.5M Series A Funding Round

– SafelyYou from San Francisco provides artificial intelligence-enabled fall detection and prevention for dementia care.
– Series A $19.5m round was led by Eclipse Ventures with participation from Founders Fund, as well as existing investors DCVC, Foundation Capital, TSQ Advisors, Pathbreaker Ventures, The House Fund, Swift Ventures, Pacific Health Ventures, Anorak Ventures, and 7Percent Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to scale up the business.

SafelyYou Closes $19.5M Series A Funding Round

– SafelyYou from San Francisco provides artificial intelligence-enabled fall detection and prevention for dementia care.
– Series A $19.5m round was led by Eclipse Ventures with participation from Founders Fund, as well as existing investors DCVC, Foundation Capital, TSQ Advisors, Pathbreaker Ventures, The House Fund, Swift Ventures, Pacific Health Ventures, Anorak Ventures, and 7Percent Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to scale up the business.

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Total investments 82
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 10.25
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RagaAI Inc.

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
$4M23 Jan 2024 Fremont, California, United States

Magma

Collaboration
Software
$5M12 Dec 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

AstroBeam

PC Games
Virtual Reality
$3M08 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Train Fitness

Artificial Intelligence
Fitness
Software
$2M21 Jun 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

TRL11

Aerospace
Battery
Manufacturing
Sensor
$3M23 May 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Blacktop Hoops

Computer
Online Games
PC Games
Virtual Reality
$5M18 Apr 2023 -

Irrigreen

Internet
$225K29 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Scenario

3D Technology
Information Technology
Software
$6M19 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Prisms of Reality

E-Learning
STEM Education
Virtual Reality
$4M02 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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