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Cantora

Founders Jesse Israel Nick Panama Will Griggs

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.18
Lead investments 0
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Events
  • Machine Learning
  • Wellness
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Fitness
Summary

Cantora is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2005. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

The fund was created by Jesse Israel, Nick Panama, Will Griggs.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2013.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Cantora, startups are often financed by Scott Banister, Matt Rolandson, Cyan Banister. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Eniac Ventures, ZhenFund, Will Smith. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Samsung NEXT, Raptor Ventures, Italian Angels for Growth.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Seen, Signal360 (formerly Sonic Notify), BioBeats. 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. 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 popular fund investment industries, there are Broadcasting, Social Media.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seen

Content Discovery
Events
Internet
Publishing
Real Time
Search Engine
Social Media
$1M03 Nov 2014 New York, New York, United States

BioBeats

Artificial Intelligence
Fitness
Health Care
Machine Learning
Wellness
$650K01 Aug 2013 England

Signal360 (formerly Sonic Notify)

Audio
Broadcasting
Content
Events
Local
SaaS
Software
$4M16 Jul 2012 New York, United States

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Total investments 3
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 0.18
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seen

Content Discovery
Events
Internet
Publishing
Real Time
Search Engine
Social Media
$1M03 Nov 2014 New York, New York, United States

BioBeats

Artificial Intelligence
Fitness
Health Care
Machine Learning
Wellness
$650K01 Aug 2013 England

Signal360 (formerly Sonic Notify)

Audio
Broadcasting
Content
Events
Local
SaaS
Software
$4M16 Jul 2012 New York, United States
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