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Brightstone Venture Capital

Founders David Dalvey David Dalvey Patrick O'Shaughnessy Seth DeGroot

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 0.97
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 6
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1985 was created Brightstone Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Minneapolis. The company was established in North America in United States.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Brightstone Venture Capital works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The fund has no specific favorite 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. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Miromatrix Medical, Disc Dynamics, Wasabi Technologies. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Semiconductor. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by David Dalvey, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Seth DeGroot. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Brightstone Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Sierra Ventures, UMC Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are HTC, Daren Cotter, StartEngine. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StartEngine, HTC, rocketship.vc.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xplore

Commercial
$16M24 Feb 2022 Washington, United States

Mosaic

Architecture
Building Material
Construction
$44M01 Nov 2021 Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Afriex

Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
Information Technology
$1M22 Mar 2021 Oakland, California, United States

Eternal

Internet
Social Media
Social Network
Software
01 Oct 2020 New York, New York, United States

Cryosa

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical Device
05 May 2020 Minnesota, United States

Aria CV

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
$31M25 Feb 2020 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Aria CV

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
31 Jan 2020 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

VRChat

Messaging
Social
Virtual Reality
$10M05 Sep 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Viosera Therapeutics

Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
Wellness
01 Jun 2019 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Total investments 38
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 0.97
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.61

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xplore

Commercial
$16M24 Feb 2022 Washington, United States

Mosaic

Architecture
Building Material
Construction
$44M01 Nov 2021 Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Afriex

Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
Information Technology
$1M22 Mar 2021 Oakland, California, United States

Eternal

Internet
Social Media
Social Network
Software
01 Oct 2020 New York, New York, United States

Cryosa

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical Device
05 May 2020 Minnesota, United States

Aria CV

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
$31M25 Feb 2020 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Aria CV

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
31 Jan 2020 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

VRChat

Messaging
Social
Virtual Reality
$10M05 Sep 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Viosera Therapeutics

Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
Wellness
01 Jun 2019 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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