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gener8tor

Founders Dan Armbrust Joe Kirgues Jon Eckhardt Troy Vosseller

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Total investments 295
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$325K
Portfolio companies 235
Rounds per year 24.58
Lead investments 39
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 6
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
Summary

gener8tor is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Madison. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Dan Armbrust, Joe Kirgues, Jon Eckhardt, Troy Vosseller.

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 Analytics, Internet. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SteamChain, Scanalytics, GrocerKey The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The high activity for fund was in 2013. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The average startup value when the investment from gener8tor is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. This gener8tor works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the gener8tor, startups are often financed by SeedInvest, BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, Angels on the Water. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CSA Partners LLC, BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, SeedInvest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by American Family Ventures, Wisconsin Investment Partners, State of Wisconsin Investment Board.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gametime Hero

Sports
$100K09 Jul 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

RIISE

Business Intelligence
$100K28 May 2024 Dover, Delaware, United States

Technova Industries

$100K18 Apr 2024 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Project Phoenix

CRM
Data Center
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$2M16 Apr 2024 Fargo, North Dakota, United States

Detect Auto

Analytics
Automotive
Software
$748K22 Mar 2024 Fargo, North Dakota, United States

AIR Corp

Robotics
$100K11 Jan 2024 -

Recess

Health Care
01 Jan 2024 New York, New York, United States

Wellthi

Banking
Consulting
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M15 Dec 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Beloit Kombucha Company

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
$800K12 Aug 2023 Beloit, Wisconsin, United States

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Total investments 295
Average round size 325K
Rounds per year 24.58
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 39
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.51

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gametime Hero

Sports
$100K09 Jul 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

RIISE

Business Intelligence
$100K28 May 2024 Dover, Delaware, United States

Technova Industries

$100K18 Apr 2024 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Project Phoenix

CRM
Data Center
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$2M16 Apr 2024 Fargo, North Dakota, United States

Detect Auto

Analytics
Automotive
Software
$748K22 Mar 2024 Fargo, North Dakota, United States

AIR Corp

Robotics
$100K11 Jan 2024 -

Recess

Health Care
01 Jan 2024 New York, New York, United States

Wellthi

Banking
Consulting
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M15 Dec 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Beloit Kombucha Company

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
$800K12 Aug 2023 Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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