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Fusion Fund

Founders Lu Zhang

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Total investments 115
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 81
Rounds per year 12.78
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 5
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Care
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Technology
Summary

Fusion Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Fusion Fund performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Fusion Fund is 10-50 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stratifyd, GrubMarket, Mojo Vision. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Mobile.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Fusion Fund, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Great Oaks Venture Capital, TSVC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Wei Guo, Social Starts. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Social Starts, GGV Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital.

The current fund was established by Lu Zhang. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Voyage AI

Information Technology
Machine Learning
03 Oct 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Starpath Robotics

Air Transportation
Space Travel
Transportation
$12M20 Aug 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Holonym

$5M16 Aug 2024 -

Vectara

$25M16 Jul 2024 Cupertino, California, United States

Subtle Medical

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Medical
Software
$10M13 May 2024 California, United States

Niobium Microsystems

$5M07 May 2024 Dayton, Ohio, United States

OverT Bio

$16M06 May 2024 New York, New York, United States

Loft Labs

Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Information Services
Information Technology
Property Management
Real Estate
Rental Property
Software
$24M16 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Völur

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$2M04 Apr 2024 Oslo, Norway
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Loft Labs Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding

– Loft Labs is a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a solution which enables platform teams in large enterprises to give engineers self-service access to Kubernetes.
– The company raised $4.6m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Fusion Fund, with participation from RTP Seed, Emergent Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, as well as angel investor and Puppet CTO Abby Kearns, who recently joined the company’s advisory board.

Bodo.ai Raises $14M in Series A Funding

– Bodo.ai is a San Francisco CA-based extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data workloads.
– Company raised $14M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures, Fusion Fund and Candou Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth, expand operations and business reach.

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Total investments 115
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 12.78
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Voyage AI

Information Technology
Machine Learning
03 Oct 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Starpath Robotics

Air Transportation
Space Travel
Transportation
$12M20 Aug 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Holonym

$5M16 Aug 2024 -

Vectara

$25M16 Jul 2024 Cupertino, California, United States

Subtle Medical

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Medical
Software
$10M13 May 2024 California, United States

Niobium Microsystems

$5M07 May 2024 Dayton, Ohio, United States

OverT Bio

$16M06 May 2024 New York, New York, United States

Loft Labs

Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Information Services
Information Technology
Property Management
Real Estate
Rental Property
Software
$24M16 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Völur

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$2M04 Apr 2024 Oslo, Norway
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