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Hayseed Ventures

Founders John James

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$273K
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 1.33
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • SaaS
  • Lifestyle
  • Software
  • Service Industry
Summary

Hayseed Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Fayetteville.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Hayseed Ventures, startups are often financed by Scott Dorsey, Matt Ferguson, Mat Orrego. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Fund for Arkansas' Future, Cadron Creek Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scott Dorsey, Michael Cohn, John James.

The current fund was established by John James. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. This Hayseed Ventures works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The typical startup value when the investment from Hayseed Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Gemini Development, Apptegy, Menguin The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Developer Tools, Mobile Advertising.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gemini Development

Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Service Industry
Software
$100K12 Jun 2017 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Scrub Shopper

E-Commerce
01 Mar 2016 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Feather

Education
Elder Care
Finance
Financial Services
Furniture
Home Decor
Home Furnishings
Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Insurance
InsurTech
Internet Retail
Lifestyle
Rental
SaaS
Service Industry
Software
Subscription Service
$250K23 Feb 2016 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Digital Media
Mobile Advertising
$500K01 Feb 2016 Arkansas, United States

TrackWired

Communities
Fitness
Racing
21 Jan 2016 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Developer APIs
Education
Mobile Apps
$1M01 Nov 2015 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Menguin

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
$140K24 Jul 2015 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Analytics
Education
SaaS
$100K01 Jul 2015 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 273K
Rounds per year 1.33
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.12

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gemini Development

Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Service Industry
Software
$100K12 Jun 2017 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Scrub Shopper

E-Commerce
01 Mar 2016 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Feather

Education
Elder Care
Finance
Financial Services
Furniture
Home Decor
Home Furnishings
Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Insurance
InsurTech
Internet Retail
Lifestyle
Rental
SaaS
Service Industry
Software
Subscription Service
$250K23 Feb 2016 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Digital Media
Mobile Advertising
$500K01 Feb 2016 Arkansas, United States

TrackWired

Communities
Fitness
Racing
21 Jan 2016 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Developer APIs
Education
Mobile Apps
$1M01 Nov 2015 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Menguin

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
$140K24 Jul 2015 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Analytics
Education
SaaS
$100K01 Jul 2015 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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