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Nameless Ventures

Founders Benjamin Vear Pavel Sokolovsky Tom Firestine

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 1.71
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 3
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Biotechnology
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Blockchain
Summary

In 2017 was created Nameless Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Nameless Ventures, startups are often financed by Steve Olechowski, Sandalphon Capital, MetaProp NYC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sandalphon Capital, M25, Cultivation Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sandalphon Capital, Cultivation Capital, Harvard Business School Angels Chicago.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Food and Beverage, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Avail, Avail, Jiobit.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The fund was created by Pavel Sokolovsky, Tom Firestine. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GigaStar

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$3M28 Dec 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

GigaStar

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$4M16 Mar 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

BiomeSense

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
$3M05 Feb 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

PechaKucha

Communities
Event Management
Events
Presentation Software
Presentations
$2M02 Jul 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Draftbit

Android
iOS
Mobile
Software
$500K01 Jan 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Mori

AgTech
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
22 Sep 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Kin Insurance

Finance
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Property Insurance
$3M01 Aug 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Avail

Property Management
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$2M25 May 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Jiobit

Consumer Electronics
Consumer Software
Embedded Software
Hardware
Machine Learning
Public Safety
$3M26 Jan 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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PechaKucha Raises $2.7M in Seed Funding

– PechaKucha, a Chicago, IL- Tokyo, Japan-based social storytelling platform, raised $2.7m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Muneaki Masuda, the founder and CEO of Culture Convenience Club Company, Limited (CCC), with participation from Lofty Ventures and Nameless Ventures and angel investors Jimmy Chamberlin (CEO of Blue J Strategies), Chuck Cohn (Founder and CEO of Nerdy), Chris Gladwin (Founder and CEO of Ocient), Paul Hsu (CEO and Founder of Decasonic), Brad Keywell (Co-Founder of Groupon, Founder and CEO of Uptake), Rob Solomon (Chairman of GoFundMe), and Vidisha Prasad (Managing Partner at Adya Partners), among others.
– The company intends to use the funds to scale headcount across product design, software development, and marketing to build new video and mobile capabilities, extend social connectivity features including group chat, enhance event hosting functions including ticketing and CRM, and grow its community of content creators.

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Total investments 12
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 1.71
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GigaStar

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$3M28 Dec 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

GigaStar

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$4M16 Mar 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

BiomeSense

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
$3M05 Feb 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

PechaKucha

Communities
Event Management
Events
Presentation Software
Presentations
$2M02 Jul 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Draftbit

Android
iOS
Mobile
Software
$500K01 Jan 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Mori

AgTech
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
22 Sep 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Kin Insurance

Finance
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Property Insurance
$3M01 Aug 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Avail

Property Management
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$2M25 May 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Jiobit

Consumer Electronics
Consumer Software
Embedded Software
Hardware
Machine Learning
Public Safety
$3M26 Jan 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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