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Unorthodox Ventures

Founders Carey Smith

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 2.83
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Medical Device
  • Fitness
  • Wellness
Summary

Unorthodox Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2018. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Austin.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Carey Smith. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the Unorthodox Ventures, startups are often financed by Yaron Samid, Ronald Cohen, RiverPark Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are H&H Group, Gigi Levy Weiss, Disruptive Technologies Venture Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lumen. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Retail, Health Care. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Laza Medical

Hospital
Medical
Medical Device
Wellness
$36M12 Dec 2023 -

CarThera

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$5M11 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Corporis Medical

Commercial
Medical
Medical Device
$4M07 Dec 2023 Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands

Akura Medical

Health Care
Medical
$35M03 Oct 2023 Campbell, California, United States

KEWAZO

Analytics
Construction
Robotics
$10M23 Jan 2023 Germany, Bavaria, Germany

Lumen

Apps
Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Health Care
Mobile Apps
Wellness
$62M01 Dec 2022 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Awkward Essentials

Consumer Goods
$2M31 Mar 2021 Costa Mesa, California, United States

Afia Food

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
01 Feb 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Lumen

Apps
Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Health Care
Mobile Apps
Wellness
$8M16 Sep 2019 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel
News
$2.3 Million Seed: Awkward Essentials Rounds Second Base With Unorthodox Ventures

– Awkward Essentials, a personal hygiene company with the first after-sex clean up product of its kind, the dripstick, announced the close of a $2.3m seed round by capital partner Unorthodox Ventures today.
– As a single-product company, Awkward Essentials will use the investment for innovation, scaling up production, and overall go-to market strategy.
– The investment completes a round started in recent months, as Unorthodox Ventures‘ team of business experts worked hand-in-hand with Awkward Essentials to help the startup rapidly grow.
Unorthodox Ventures sets itself apart in the crowded investment space with its operating model that combines investment, expertise and support services.

Constipation treatment Vibrant raises $7.5 million led by Unorthodox Ventures

– Vibrant, a leading developer of gastrointestinal treatments, today announced the first closing of a $7.5 million Series E funding round, led by Unorthodox Ventures, the Austin-based investment group that’s redefining today’s venture capital model.
Unorthodox Ventures Founding Contrarian Carey Smith, who founded fan and light maker Big Ass Fans, will join Vibrant’s Board of Directors.
– The Board is led by Yoav Shaked, a partner with Sequoia Capital, which is a prior investor in Vibrant and has joined in four rounds of funding.

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Total investments 17
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 2.83
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.12
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Laza Medical

Hospital
Medical
Medical Device
Wellness
$36M12 Dec 2023 -

CarThera

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$5M11 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Corporis Medical

Commercial
Medical
Medical Device
$4M07 Dec 2023 Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands

Akura Medical

Health Care
Medical
$35M03 Oct 2023 Campbell, California, United States

KEWAZO

Analytics
Construction
Robotics
$10M23 Jan 2023 Germany, Bavaria, Germany

Lumen

Apps
Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Health Care
Mobile Apps
Wellness
$62M01 Dec 2022 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Awkward Essentials

Consumer Goods
$2M31 Mar 2021 Costa Mesa, California, United States

Afia Food

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
01 Feb 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Lumen

Apps
Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Health Care
Mobile Apps
Wellness
$8M16 Sep 2019 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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