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Wakestream Ventures

Founders Rick DeVos

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 47
Rounds per year 8.62
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 8
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

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

Wakestream Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Grand Rapids. The company was established in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Benefit Mobile, GINKGOTREE, Shoulder Innovations.

The fund was created by Rick DeVos. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Wakestream Ventures, startups are often financed by Grand Angels, Techstars, Harvard Business School Angels Chicago. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Start Garden, Invest Detroit, Michigan Angel Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by eLab Ventures, Lux Capital, Invest Detroit.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This Wakestream Ventures works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ADHD Online

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
20 Jul 2023 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

SensCy

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$4M09 Dec 2022 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

ATLAS Space Operations

Space Travel
$26M25 Aug 2022 Traverse City, Michigan, United States

Digital Power-Optimization

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Management Consulting
Renewable Energy
$2M09 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Orbion Space Technology

Automotive
Information Technology
Logistics
Manufacturing
Software
$20M24 Jun 2021 Michigan, United States

ADHD Online

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
$2M05 May 2021 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

MaxOne

Apps
Information Technology
SaaS
Sports
$5M07 Jan 2021 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Facility Health

Analytics
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$1M30 Jan 2020 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Magic Spoon

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Sales
Snack Food
$5M12 Sep 2019 New York, New York, United States
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MaxOne Raises $3.5M in Funding

– MaxOne from Grand Rapids, MI develops technology to help coaches interact and engage with athletes.
– Company raised $3.5M in funding.
– The round was led by Stadia Ventures with participation from Chris Paul, the Piquet Family Office, and Wakestream Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

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Total investments 69
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 8.62
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ADHD Online

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
20 Jul 2023 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

SensCy

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$4M09 Dec 2022 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

ATLAS Space Operations

Space Travel
$26M25 Aug 2022 Traverse City, Michigan, United States

Digital Power-Optimization

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Management Consulting
Renewable Energy
$2M09 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Orbion Space Technology

Automotive
Information Technology
Logistics
Manufacturing
Software
$20M24 Jun 2021 Michigan, United States

ADHD Online

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
$2M05 May 2021 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

MaxOne

Apps
Information Technology
SaaS
Sports
$5M07 Jan 2021 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Facility Health

Analytics
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$1M30 Jan 2020 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Magic Spoon

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Sales
Snack Food
$5M12 Sep 2019 New York, New York, United States
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