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Unshackled Ventures

Founders Manan Mehta Nitin Pachisia

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Total investments 83
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 55
Rounds per year 9.22
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Care
  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2015 was created Unshackled Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Unshackled Ventures, startups are often financed by Jeremie Berrebi, 500 Startups, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Varsha Rao, One Way Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Nat Turner, Fernbrook Capital Management LLC.

The current fund was established by Manan Mehta, Nitin Pachisia. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Opposing the other organizations, this Unshackled Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Unshackled Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pod Foods Co, Grid Raster, Ubiquitilink. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Masa Finance

$5M23 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Cache Energy

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Energy Storage
Power Grid
$4M25 Aug 2023 Champaign, Illinois, United States

Maayon Inc.

06 Dec 2022 -

Maximus

Consumer
Health Care
Software
$10M10 Aug 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States

Formally

$2M16 May 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

Prismpop

Communities
E-Commerce
Internet
$3M10 May 2022 Pasadena, California, United States

Masa Finance

$3M04 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Hairtelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Beauty
Women's
$5M28 Apr 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Parfait

Artificial Intelligence
Beauty
Virtual Reality
$5M12 Apr 2022 New York, New York, United States
News
Plantible Raises $21.5M in Series A Funding

– Plantible is a San Diego CA-based food-tech/biotech company.
– Series A funding round raised $21.5m.
– The round was led by Astanor Ventures with participation from Piva Capital, CJ CheilJedang, Good Friends, Bradley Horowitz (SVP of Product at Google), Trevor Martin (Founder of Mammoth Biosciences) and Chris Bryson (Founder of Unata), Vectr Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, eighteen94 capital (Kellogg Company’s venture capital fund), FTW Ventures and Unshackled Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to build its first commercial facility to launch and commercialize its product in 2022.

Pngme Raises $15M in Series A Funding

– Pngme is a San Francisco, CA-based financial data infrastructure and machine learning-as-a-service platform.
– The company raised $15m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Lateral Capital, Unshackled Ventures, Raptor Group, EchoVC, Future Africa, Two Small Fish Ventures, and a group of individual angel investors including RallyCap’s Hayden Simmons, Plaid’s Dan Khan, former COO of RBC Capital Markets Richard Talbot, and Intersect VC’s Kyle Ellicott among others.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its executive team with the hiring of Lorraine Kageni Maina as Chief Strategy Officer and Nick Masson as Chief Technology Officer.

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Total investments 83
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 9.22
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.55

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Masa Finance

$5M23 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Cache Energy

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Energy Storage
Power Grid
$4M25 Aug 2023 Champaign, Illinois, United States

Maayon Inc.

06 Dec 2022 -

Maximus

Consumer
Health Care
Software
$10M10 Aug 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States

Formally

$2M16 May 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

Prismpop

Communities
E-Commerce
Internet
$3M10 May 2022 Pasadena, California, United States

Masa Finance

$3M04 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Hairtelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Beauty
Women's
$5M28 Apr 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Parfait

Artificial Intelligence
Beauty
Virtual Reality
$5M12 Apr 2022 New York, New York, United States
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