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Finistere Ventures

Founders Arama Kukutai Jay Brumfield Spencer Maughan

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 2.89
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 5
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Agriculture
  • Biotechnology
  • AgTech
  • Farming
  • Food and Beverage
Summary

Finistere Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Diego.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Finistere Ventures, startups are often financed by Split Rock Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Intersouth Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Innovation Endeavors, Radicle Growth, OurCrowd. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RMI Partners, Mindset Ventures, Middleland Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are AgTech, Agriculture. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Transcend Medical, Hemarina, Telesense. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The overall number of key employees were 14.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Finistere Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. This Finistere Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Scentian Bio

Biotechnology
Sensor
$2M27 Sep 2023 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Berkeley Yeast

Brewing
Craft Beer
Food and Beverage
$10M06 May 2023 Oakland, California, United States

CropX

Agriculture
Analytics
Farming
Robotics
$30M19 Apr 2023 Israel, North District, Israel

Growers Edge

Agriculture
Farming
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M13 Feb 2023 Iowa, United States

Animol Discovery

Biotechnology
$34M28 Jul 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Enko Chem

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Chemical
$70M27 Jul 2022 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

BioLumic

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Cannabis
Sustainability
$13M21 Jun 2022 Nelson, New Zealand

Eggmented Reality

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
$1M01 Mar 2022 Qiryat Shmona, HaZafon, Israel

ProTag

$690K03 Feb 2022 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
News
Territory Foods Raises $22M in Funding

– Territory Foods is an Arlington, Va.-based nutritionist designed meal delivery service tailored to personalized dietary preferences.
– The company closed a $22m funding round.
– The round was led by U.S. Venture Partners with participation from Upfront Ventures, Lewis & Clark Ventures, DF Enterprises, S2G Ventures, Gaingels, Middleland Capital, Finistere Ventures and Rethink Food Capital.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand its business reach nationwide.

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Total investments 55
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 2.89
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Scentian Bio

Biotechnology
Sensor
$2M27 Sep 2023 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Berkeley Yeast

Brewing
Craft Beer
Food and Beverage
$10M06 May 2023 Oakland, California, United States

CropX

Agriculture
Analytics
Farming
Robotics
$30M19 Apr 2023 Israel, North District, Israel

Growers Edge

Agriculture
Farming
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M13 Feb 2023 Iowa, United States

Animol Discovery

Biotechnology
$34M28 Jul 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Enko Chem

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Chemical
$70M27 Jul 2022 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

BioLumic

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Cannabis
Sustainability
$13M21 Jun 2022 Nelson, New Zealand

Eggmented Reality

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
$1M01 Mar 2022 Qiryat Shmona, HaZafon, Israel

ProTag

$690K03 Feb 2022 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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