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BuildGroup

Founders Jim Curry Klee Kleber Lanham Napier Peter Freeland

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$28M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 2.38
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 3
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Open Source
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

BuildGroup is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2015. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Austin. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the BuildGroup, startups are often financed by GGV Capital, Ron Gula, Moonshots Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are General Catalyst, You & Mr Jones Brandtech Ventures, Macanta Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Catalyst, Georgian Partners, Citi Ventures.

This organization was formed by Jim Curry, Klee Kleber, Lanham Napier, Peter Freeland. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fiix Software, Yonder, VidMob.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cybrary

Cyber Security
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Recruiting
Training
$25M02 Aug 2022 Maryland, United States

Dvinci Energy

$36M18 Jan 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Flowspace

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Warehousing
$31M15 Mar 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
Software
$14M30 Jun 2020 Washington, United States

Cybrary

Cyber Security
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Recruiting
Training
$15M13 Nov 2019 Maryland, United States

Yonder

Information Technology
Internet
$3M30 Jul 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

VidMob

Advertising Platforms
Cloud Data Services
Social Media Advertising
Video
$25M13 Jun 2019 New York, United States

X-Mode Social

Big Data
Cyber Security
GovTech
Location Based Services
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
Smart Cities
$9M04 Jun 2019 Virginia, United States

Fiix Software

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$42M29 Jan 2019 Ontario
News
Flowspace Raises $31 Million to Expand Fulfillment Platform

– Flowspace, the fulfillment technology platform that’s disrupting the way that e-commerce companies store and ship their products, today announced $31m in new funding.
– The new Series B investment was led by BuildGroup of Austin, Texas with participation from existing investors.
– Founded in 2017, Flowspace has now raised a total of $46m that includes investment from Canvas Ventures, Industrious Ventures, Moment Ventures, 1984 Ventures, eGateway Capital and Y Combinator.
– Flowspace helps businesses manage their warehousing and fulfillment through its proprietary software platform which now runs in hundreds of partnering fulfillment centers across the US.

VidMob Raises $50M in Series C Funding

– VidMob, a NYC-based Intelligent Creative platform provider, raised $50m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Adobe, Shutterstock, Drive by DraftKings, the Spruce House Partnership, Prefix Capital, BuildGroup, Interlock Partners, Macanta, and key industry and tech leaders like Michael Kassan, Nick Brien, Thomas Tull, Mainardo de Nardis, among others.
– César Melo, former president at Mondelez and PepsiCo, CEO at Foster Grant and VP at Colgate-Palmolive is also investing and joining the board as an advisor.

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Total investments 19
Average round size 28M
Rounds per year 2.38
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cybrary

Cyber Security
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Recruiting
Training
$25M02 Aug 2022 Maryland, United States

Dvinci Energy

$36M18 Jan 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Flowspace

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Warehousing
$31M15 Mar 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
Software
$14M30 Jun 2020 Washington, United States

Cybrary

Cyber Security
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Recruiting
Training
$15M13 Nov 2019 Maryland, United States

Yonder

Information Technology
Internet
$3M30 Jul 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

VidMob

Advertising Platforms
Cloud Data Services
Social Media Advertising
Video
$25M13 Jun 2019 New York, United States

X-Mode Social

Big Data
Cyber Security
GovTech
Location Based Services
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
Smart Cities
$9M04 Jun 2019 Virginia, United States

Fiix Software

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$42M29 Jan 2019 Ontario
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