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Windforce Ventures

Founders Jason Stein Mario Montoya Michoel Ogince

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 1.40
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 4
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Software
  • Analytics
  • Information Technology
  • Security
Summary

Windforce Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Windforce Ventures works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Windforce Ventures, startups are often financed by Zelkova Ventures, Tiller Partners, Techstars Chicago (Formerly Excelerate Labs). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Eniac Ventures, Mesa Ventures, Ludlow Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kohlberg Ventures, Social Starts, Eniac Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Security, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lettuce, Sightly, Canvs. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

This organization was formed by Jason Stein, Mario Montoya, Michoel Ogince. The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kisi Security

Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
Mobile
Real Estate
SaaS
Security
Smart Building
$1M06 May 2015 New York, New York, United States

Navdy

Automotive
Consumer Electronics
Mobile
Navigation
$6M02 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

BetterCompany

Human Resources
Recruiting
Software
$1M10 Apr 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Sightly

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Digital Media
Marketing
Mobile Advertising
Personalization
Video
Video Advertising
$4M28 Jan 2014 New York, New York, United States

Freak'n Genius

Developer Tools
E-Commerce
Internet of Things
Mobile
Publishing
Toys
$375K23 Jan 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States

Lettuce

E-Commerce
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Information Technology
Management Information Systems
Sales Automation
Software
$1M01 Aug 2013 Los Angeles, California, United States

Reactor Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Mobile
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Search
$1M01 Jul 2013 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Nexgate

Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Fraud Detection
Information Technology
Security
Social Media
Software
$3M09 Apr 2013 California, United States

Reactor Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Mobile
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Search
$750K13 Feb 2013 Boulder, Colorado, United States

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Total investments 14
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 1.40
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kisi Security

Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
Mobile
Real Estate
SaaS
Security
Smart Building
$1M06 May 2015 New York, New York, United States

Navdy

Automotive
Consumer Electronics
Mobile
Navigation
$6M02 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

BetterCompany

Human Resources
Recruiting
Software
$1M10 Apr 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Sightly

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Digital Media
Marketing
Mobile Advertising
Personalization
Video
Video Advertising
$4M28 Jan 2014 New York, New York, United States

Freak'n Genius

Developer Tools
E-Commerce
Internet of Things
Mobile
Publishing
Toys
$375K23 Jan 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States

Lettuce

E-Commerce
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Information Technology
Management Information Systems
Sales Automation
Software
$1M01 Aug 2013 Los Angeles, California, United States

Reactor Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Mobile
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Search
$1M01 Jul 2013 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Nexgate

Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Fraud Detection
Information Technology
Security
Social Media
Software
$3M09 Apr 2013 California, United States

Reactor Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Mobile
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Search
$750K13 Feb 2013 Boulder, Colorado, United States
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