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Upheaval Investments

Founders Riley Florsheim

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 1.50
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Robotics
  • Hardware
  • Virtual Reality
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Motion Capture
Summary

In 2017 was created Upheaval Investments, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The fund was created by Riley Florsheim.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Upheaval Investments is 5-10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Upheaval Investments, startups are often financed by Seedcamp, Sandalphon Capital, Right Side Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Seedcamp, Dawn Patrol Ventures, XFactor Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techstars, Seedcamp, Eniac Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Passbase, Chowly, Inc., HaptX. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Robotics, Restaurants. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Atomos Space

Aerospace
Logistics
Nuclear
Robotics
Space Travel
Transportation
$16M06 Jan 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

HaptX

Hardware
Human Computer Interaction
Motion Capture
Robotics
Virtual Reality
$12M20 Jul 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Reniac

Analytics
Big Data
Software
10 Mar 2020 San Jose, California, United States

HaptX

Hardware
Human Computer Interaction
Motion Capture
Robotics
Virtual Reality
$12M20 Dec 2019 Seattle, Washington, United States

Passbase

Internet
$3M25 Sep 2019 Berlin

Passbase

Internet
$600K15 Mar 2019 Berlin

Chowly

Data Integration
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Food Processing
Information Technology
Restaurants
Technical Support
$5M24 Sep 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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HaptX raises another $12M for high-tech gloves, relocates HQ back to Seattle

– HaptX is raising more cash to meet demand for its haptic gloves that help enterprise customers working in virtual reality and robotics.
– The company just landed $12m from existing investors including Verizon Ventures, Mason Avenue Investments, Taylor Frigon Capital Partners, and Upheaval Investments.
– Total funding to date is $31m.
– HaptX released the HaptX Gloves DK2 in January and said all inventory is sold out.
– It will use the funding to launch a second manufacturing run.
– The company is also moving its headquarters to back the Seattle area, where it originally launched before moving to California and will open a new 15,000 square-foot space.

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Total investments 9
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 1.50
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.44
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Atomos Space

Aerospace
Logistics
Nuclear
Robotics
Space Travel
Transportation
$16M06 Jan 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

HaptX

Hardware
Human Computer Interaction
Motion Capture
Robotics
Virtual Reality
$12M20 Jul 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Reniac

Analytics
Big Data
Software
10 Mar 2020 San Jose, California, United States

HaptX

Hardware
Human Computer Interaction
Motion Capture
Robotics
Virtual Reality
$12M20 Dec 2019 Seattle, Washington, United States

Passbase

Internet
$3M25 Sep 2019 Berlin

Passbase

Internet
$600K15 Mar 2019 Berlin

Chowly

Data Integration
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Food Processing
Information Technology
Restaurants
Technical Support
$5M24 Sep 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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