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Ulu Ventures

Founders Clint Korver Miriam Rivera

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Total investments 295
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 193
Rounds per year 18.44
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 26
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • FinTech
  • Internet
Summary

Ulu Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The fund was created by Clint Korver, Miriam Rivera. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Ulu Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Kapor Capital, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kapor Capital, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), XSeed Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Social Capital, Harrison Metal.

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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, E-Commerce. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Palantir Technologies, Social Finance (SoFi), Comprehend Systems.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Ulu Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Ulu Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dwellsy

Consumer Applications
Internet
Property Management
Rental Property
$11M15 Nov 2023 California, United States

SuperCircle

CleanTech
Retail Technology
Waste Management
$7M14 Nov 2023 -

Mon Ami

Service Industry
Social
$3M06 Nov 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Pontoro

Financial Services
FinTech
$4M26 Sep 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

Grapevine

Social Entrepreneurship
$1M08 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

Boombox

Music
Software
$7M23 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Irrigreen

Internet
$225K29 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Banyan Infrastructure Corporation

Blockchain
Financial Services
Infrastructure
$25M07 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Gable

Human Resources
$16M28 Feb 2023 -
News
CoreChain Raises $1.25M to Revolutionize B2B Payments for the Enterprise With Blockchain Technology

– CoreChain Technologies announced it has raised $1.25m in pre-seed funding from investors that include Ulu Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Bloccelerate VC and New Form Capital.
– The funding will be used to accelerate enterprise customer adoption and aggressively expand its payments and financing network.
– CoreChain is streamlining the manual processes and painful reconciliation that has remained static for decades, while mitigating fraud.
– CoreChain also unlocks lending opportunities to finance the working capital being held in unpaid invoices that age towards settlement due dates, frequently 30 to 120 days in arrears.
– CoreChain was launched in September 2020 and has processed over $300m in B2B payments for enterprise buyers, including transactions for channel customers, such as PaymentWorks.

Allocate banks $5M to open up venture capital fund access

– Allocate, a venture capital investing platform, raised $5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Urban Innovation Fund, Tusk Venture Partners, Basis Set Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, Fika Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Anthemis Group and Broadhaven Ventures.
– The company was founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021.

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Total investments 295
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 18.44
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 26
Group Appearance index 0.72

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dwellsy

Consumer Applications
Internet
Property Management
Rental Property
$11M15 Nov 2023 California, United States

SuperCircle

CleanTech
Retail Technology
Waste Management
$7M14 Nov 2023 -

Mon Ami

Service Industry
Social
$3M06 Nov 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Pontoro

Financial Services
FinTech
$4M26 Sep 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

Grapevine

Social Entrepreneurship
$1M08 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

Boombox

Music
Software
$7M23 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Irrigreen

Internet
$225K29 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Banyan Infrastructure Corporation

Blockchain
Financial Services
Infrastructure
$25M07 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Gable

Human Resources
$16M28 Feb 2023 -
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