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JCI Ventures

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 2.38
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Security
  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
Summary

In 2015 was created JCI Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Mateo. The venture was found in North America in United States. JCI Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. This JCI Ventures works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy, Manufacturing. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight RetailNext, RedSeal, Humatics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the JCI Ventures, startups are often financed by Venrock, Sutter Hill Ventures, StarVest Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ray Stata, Hardware Club, Cisco Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ray Stata, Symphony Technology Group, Ruvento.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kultua

Human Resources
$141K21 Dec 2022 Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alcatraz

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Facial Recognition
Machine Learning
Security
$25M13 Sep 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

XY Sense

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Commercial Real Estate
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Property Management
Software
$8M25 Jul 2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

RaySecur

Security
$13M23 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Humatics

Collaboration
Robotics
Software
$28M07 Jan 2019 Massachusetts, United States

Alcatraz

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Facial Recognition
Machine Learning
Security
$4M12 Jun 2018 Palo Alto, California, United States

Magos Systems

Enterprise
Manufacturing
Military
08 May 2018 Israel, Center District, Israel

RedSeal

Analytics
Computer
Cyber Security
Mobile
Security
Software
$17M06 Apr 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Waygum, Inc.

Internet of Things
Mobile
$2M27 Mar 2015 California, United States
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RaySecur Raises $13M Series A

– RaySecur from San Francisco has announced $13M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Outsiders Fund with participation from JCI Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Johnson Controls, One Way Ventures, Yu Galaxy, Launchpad Venture Group, and Dreamit Ventures.
– The funding will accelerate market adoption of its patented mmWave imaging technology and amplify growth within the mail and package security sector.

Alcatraz AI Raises Additional $6.1M in Funding

– Alcatraz AI from Redwood City develops secure access control solutions.
– The company raised $6.1m in funding.
– Backers included Ray Stata (lead), Hardware Club, Mucker Capital, JCI Ventures, the venture capital arm of Johnson Controls, and LDV Partners.
– The new investment will be aimed at product development and expansion of foothold in the market.

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Total investments 19
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 2.38
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kultua

Human Resources
$141K21 Dec 2022 Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alcatraz

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Facial Recognition
Machine Learning
Security
$25M13 Sep 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

XY Sense

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Commercial Real Estate
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Property Management
Software
$8M25 Jul 2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

RaySecur

Security
$13M23 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Humatics

Collaboration
Robotics
Software
$28M07 Jan 2019 Massachusetts, United States

Alcatraz

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Facial Recognition
Machine Learning
Security
$4M12 Jun 2018 Palo Alto, California, United States

Magos Systems

Enterprise
Manufacturing
Military
08 May 2018 Israel, Center District, Israel

RedSeal

Analytics
Computer
Cyber Security
Mobile
Security
Software
$17M06 Apr 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Waygum, Inc.

Internet of Things
Mobile
$2M27 Mar 2015 California, United States
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