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Elkstone

Founders Alan Merriman

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 2.00
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
  • Machine Learning
  • Wearables
  • Natural Language Processing
Summary

The overall number of key employees were 7.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Apps, Financial Services. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Soapbox Labs, Flipdish.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Elkstone, startups are often financed by Growing Capital, Enterprise Ireland, Point72 Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Point72 Ventures, Enterprise Ireland, Thirdstream Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Thirdstream Partners, Point72 Ventures, Global Founders Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Thriftify

E-Commerce
Retail
$590K28 Oct 2020 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Evercam

Construction
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Photography
SaaS
Video Editing
Video Streaming
$678K08 Oct 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Prommt

Information Services
Information Technology
$914K31 Jul 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Soapbox Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Audio
Children
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Smart Home
Speech Recognition
Wearables
$6M18 Apr 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Output Sports

Sports
$1M02 Mar 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Change Donations

FinTech
Internet
Non Profit
$944K04 Feb 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Penfold

FinTech
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Personal Finance
$3M31 Aug 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

CheckVentory

Apps
Asset Management
Automotive
Business Intelligence
Consulting
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Risk Management
$590K12 May 2019 Ireland, County Dublin, Ireland

HANetf

Financial Services
18 Feb 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Manna Raises $25M in Series A Funding

– Manna, a Dublin, Ireland-based food delivery startup which uses drones, raised $25M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Draper Esprit.
Team Europe, DST Global and existing investors Dynamo Ventures, Atlantic Bridge and Elkstone also participated in the round.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach, continue to scale its fleet of drones and to begin supporting critical medical deliveries.

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Total investments 20
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 2.00
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.25
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Thriftify

E-Commerce
Retail
$590K28 Oct 2020 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Evercam

Construction
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Photography
SaaS
Video Editing
Video Streaming
$678K08 Oct 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Prommt

Information Services
Information Technology
$914K31 Jul 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Soapbox Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Audio
Children
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Smart Home
Speech Recognition
Wearables
$6M18 Apr 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Output Sports

Sports
$1M02 Mar 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Change Donations

FinTech
Internet
Non Profit
$944K04 Feb 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Penfold

FinTech
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Personal Finance
$3M31 Aug 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

CheckVentory

Apps
Asset Management
Automotive
Business Intelligence
Consulting
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Risk Management
$590K12 May 2019 Ireland, County Dublin, Ireland

HANetf

Financial Services
18 Feb 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
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