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University Growth Fund

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 2.11
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 1
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

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

University Growth Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the Salt Lake City. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Cosmetics, SaaS. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Canopy, GrubMarket, Kopari Beauty.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 partakers. Despite the University Growth Fund, startups are often financed by Great Oaks Venture Capital, GGV Capital, EPIC Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are EPIC Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Inc., WI Harper Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tenaya Capital, Nyca Partners, New Enterprise Associates.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from University Growth Fund the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Daylight

Banking
Credit Cards
Debit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Social Impact
$15M18 Nov 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Luz Data

Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining
Database
$8M17 Nov 2022 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

iraLogix

Accounting
Enterprise Software
FinTech
$22M13 Jul 2022 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Prime Trust

Banking
Blockchain
Crowdfunding
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$107M22 Jun 2022 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Koji

Cloud Computing
Content Creators
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Mobile Apps
$20M25 Jan 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Tiled

Content
Information Technology
Software
$13M08 Sep 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Carputty

Automotive
Consumer
Financial Services
FinTech
$7M06 Aug 2021 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Prime Trust

Banking
Blockchain
Crowdfunding
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$64M28 Jul 2021 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

eVisit

Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
SaaS
$14M20 Oct 2020 Mesa, Arizona, United States
News
Tiled Raises $13.7M in Series A Funding

– Tiled is a San Diego, CA-based interactive content platform to create engaging experiences.
– The company raised $13.7m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Signal Peak Ventures with participation from Seismic, Adobe, and University Growth Fund, alongside existing investors.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and to ramp up hiring across all areas, and invest in sales and marketing, channel partnerships, and product improvements.

Carputty Raises $7.2M in Seed Funding

– Carputty, a direct lender re-engineering the car financing business.
– The company has raised $7.2m in a seed round led by Kickstart Fund.
– The funding round also includes a significant investment from others, including Kinetic Ventures, University Growth Fund, Aries Capital Partners, and Atlanta-based entrepreneur John Dancu.

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Total investments 19
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 2.11
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Daylight

Banking
Credit Cards
Debit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Social Impact
$15M18 Nov 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Luz Data

Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining
Database
$8M17 Nov 2022 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

iraLogix

Accounting
Enterprise Software
FinTech
$22M13 Jul 2022 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Prime Trust

Banking
Blockchain
Crowdfunding
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$107M22 Jun 2022 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Koji

Cloud Computing
Content Creators
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Mobile Apps
$20M25 Jan 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Tiled

Content
Information Technology
Software
$13M08 Sep 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Carputty

Automotive
Consumer
Financial Services
FinTech
$7M06 Aug 2021 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Prime Trust

Banking
Blockchain
Crowdfunding
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$64M28 Jul 2021 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

eVisit

Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
SaaS
$14M20 Oct 2020 Mesa, Arizona, United States
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