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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$40M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 3.33
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Energy
  • Electronics
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Future Shape, startups are often financed by Pelion Venture Partners, Data Collective DCVC, Crosslink Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, PeopleFund, Mitsui Kinzoku-SBI Material Innovation Fund.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Medical. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Weave, Vium, Simbe Robotics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical startup value when the investment from Future Shape is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meter

$35M12 Sep 2022 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Kushim

Data Visualization
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
Internet
$5M07 Sep 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Ambient Photonics

Battery
Electronics
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Internet of Things
$31M10 May 2022 Mill Valley, California, United States

Sweep

Environmental Engineering
GreenTech
Software
Sustainability
$78M04 Apr 2022 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Nothing

Consumer
Consumer Software
Information Technology
$70M09 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

RightHand Robotics

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Robotics
Supply Chain Management
$66M23 Feb 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Mantle

3D Printing
Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$25M21 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

DICE

Big Data
Content Discovery
Ticketing
$122M27 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

XpertSea

Aquaculture
Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
SaaS
$20M10 Aug 2021 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
News
Indonesian halal-focused social commerce startup Evermos lands $30M Series B

– Indonesian social commerce startup Evermos raised $30m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by UOB Venture Management’s Asia Impact Investment Fund II and joined by IFC, MDI Ventures, Telkomsel Mitra Innovation and Future Shape, along with returning investors Jungle Ventures and Shunwei Capital.
– The funding will be used on hiring, enhancing Evermos’ recommendation engine and other AI-based tech, and entering new regions in Indonesia.
– The company says it currently has 100,000 active resellers in more than 500 Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, mostly in Java. Its goal is to reach more than one million resellers throughout Indonesia over the next five years.

XpertSea Raises $20 Million Series B to Transform the Seafood Economy through Finance and Technology

– XpertSea, a Canadian company transforming how seafood is farmed and traded, announced it has closed a $20M USD Series B funding round.
– The round was led by QED Investors and Atlantico with Investissement Quebec joining previous investors Obvious Ventures, Aqua-Spark, Tony Fadell’s Future Shape, Real Ventures and edō Capital.
– QED partner Lauren Morton will join XpertSea’s board, resulting in both an executive team and a board where women are in the majority.
– By 2050 our planet will need 70% more food production to feed 10 billion people. Aquaculture represents one of the most efficient and sustainable ways to supply that quality protein, but technology gaps and the lack of financial services to underbanked farmers are major barriers to growth.

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Total investments 30
Average round size 40M
Rounds per year 3.33
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meter

$35M12 Sep 2022 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Kushim

Data Visualization
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
Internet
$5M07 Sep 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Ambient Photonics

Battery
Electronics
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Internet of Things
$31M10 May 2022 Mill Valley, California, United States

Sweep

Environmental Engineering
GreenTech
Software
Sustainability
$78M04 Apr 2022 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Nothing

Consumer
Consumer Software
Information Technology
$70M09 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

RightHand Robotics

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Robotics
Supply Chain Management
$66M23 Feb 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Mantle

3D Printing
Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$25M21 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

DICE

Big Data
Content Discovery
Ticketing
$122M27 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

XpertSea

Aquaculture
Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
SaaS
$20M10 Aug 2021 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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