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Blackhorn Ventures

Founders Jack Fuchs Philip O'Connor Trevor Zimmerman

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Total investments 95
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 62
Rounds per year 11.88
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 3
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Construction
Summary

Blackhorn Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boulder. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Blackhorn Ventures, startups are often financed by Brick & Mortar Ventures, Greylock Partners, Unshackled Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tenfore Holdings, Breakout Ventures, Western Technology Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Urban Innovation Fund, Thirdstream Partners, Nyca Partners.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Humatics, Aperia Technologies, Wunder Capital. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Agriculture. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

This Blackhorn Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

This organization was formed by Jack Fuchs, Philip O'Connor, Trevor Zimmerman. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Briq

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Construction
Data Integration
FinTech
Industrial Automation
Infrastructure
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Productivity Tools
Real Estate
Software
$8M18 Jan 2024 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Returnmates

E-Commerce
Internet
Logistics
Shipping
$19M11 Jan 2024 Venice, California, United States

Dwellsy

Consumer Applications
Internet
Property Management
Rental Property
$11M15 Nov 2023 California, United States

Ridepanda

Retail
$7M09 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Optera

CleanTech
Environmental Consulting
Sustainability
$12M11 Sep 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

ecoworks

Architecture
$16M28 Jul 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Electric Era

$11M18 Jul 2023 -

Fero Labs

Analytics
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$15M21 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Golioth

Cloud Infrastructure
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
$4M04 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

– Latent AI, a now three-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup, just closed on $19m in Series A funding in a round co-led by Future Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures, with participation from Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin, 40 North Ventures, and Autotech Ventures.
– The company has now raised $22.5m altogether.

QuoteToMe Lands $2.5 Million in Venture Funding

– QuoteToMe, which is digitizing the construction industry’s procurement and financial processes, announced it has funded a fully subscribed VC investment round of $2.5 million (CAD).
– This $2.5 million round was led by Builders VC and Blackhorn Ventures, with participation from Argonautic Ventures, Azure Capital, Stanford University | Farmers Investment Club, and the Donnelley Family, among others.
– QuoteToMe has drawn extraordinary interest because it automates purchasing and financial transactions for purchasers of construction materials and equipment.
– QuoteToMe centralizes buy-side/sell-side communications, offering users quote comparisons, while automatically reconciling purchase orders and invoices.
– Contractor clients of QuoteToMe report savings of up to 15%, which can easily double a buyer’s traditional profit margins.

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Total investments 95
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 11.88
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Briq

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Construction
Data Integration
FinTech
Industrial Automation
Infrastructure
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Productivity Tools
Real Estate
Software
$8M18 Jan 2024 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Returnmates

E-Commerce
Internet
Logistics
Shipping
$19M11 Jan 2024 Venice, California, United States

Dwellsy

Consumer Applications
Internet
Property Management
Rental Property
$11M15 Nov 2023 California, United States

Ridepanda

Retail
$7M09 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Optera

CleanTech
Environmental Consulting
Sustainability
$12M11 Sep 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

ecoworks

Architecture
$16M28 Jul 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Electric Era

$11M18 Jul 2023 -

Fero Labs

Analytics
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$15M21 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Golioth

Cloud Infrastructure
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
$4M04 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
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