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Acequia Capital (Acecap)

Founders Fritz Lanman Hank Vigil

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Total investments 492
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 307
Rounds per year 35.14
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 28
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
  • Machine Learning
Summary

Acequia Capital (Acecap) is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Seattle. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pinterest, Flexport, ContextLogic (dba. Wish). Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Acequia Capital (Acecap), startups are often financed by Morado Ventures, Charlie Songhurst, Vivi Nevo. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hank Vigil, First Round Capital, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FirstMark, Hank Vigil, Y Combinator.

The current fund was established by Fritz Lanman, Hank Vigil. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. When the investment is from Acequia Capital (Acecap) the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Acequia Capital (Acecap) works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Magma

Collaboration
Software
$5M12 Dec 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Atomic Industries

Industrial
Industrial Manufacturing
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
$17M04 Dec 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

AnySignal

$5M16 Oct 2023 -

Deta

Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Information Technology
Web Development
$3M10 Oct 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Puraffinity

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
CleanTech
Life Science
Medical
Water
$13M05 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Windup Minds

Gaming
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$1M07 Aug 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Red Rover

Gaming
Service Industry
Sports
$5M22 Jun 2023 Norway, South Carolina, United States

Sloyd

3D Technology
Video Games
15 Jun 2023 Oslo, Norway

Swave Photonics

Augmented Reality
Semiconductor
02 Jun 2023 Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
News
Edgeless Systems Raises €1.45M in Seed Funding

– Edgeless Systems from Bochum develops an open-source software stack for cloud-native confidential computing.
– The company raised €1.45M in seed funding.
– Backers included Acequia Capital (US), Inventures (DE), SIX Group AG (CH), Venture Creator (DE), and individual angel investors.
– The new investment will be used to expand the 12-member team on both cengineering and business site and expand its office capacities in Bochum and remotely.

Productivity startup Time is Ltd. raises $5.6M to be the ‘Google Analytics for company time’

– Time is Ltd. is a productivity analytics startup.
– The company has raised $5.6m in funding.
– The round was led by Chalfen Ventures, with participation from Illuminate Financial Management, Accel, Acequia Capital, Paul Sallaberry, and Ulf Zetterberg.

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Total investments 492
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 35.14
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 28
Group Appearance index 0.40

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Magma

Collaboration
Software
$5M12 Dec 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Atomic Industries

Industrial
Industrial Manufacturing
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
$17M04 Dec 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

AnySignal

$5M16 Oct 2023 -

Deta

Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Information Technology
Web Development
$3M10 Oct 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Puraffinity

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
CleanTech
Life Science
Medical
Water
$13M05 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Windup Minds

Gaming
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$1M07 Aug 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Red Rover

Gaming
Service Industry
Sports
$5M22 Jun 2023 Norway, South Carolina, United States

Sloyd

3D Technology
Video Games
15 Jun 2023 Oslo, Norway

Swave Photonics

Augmented Reality
Semiconductor
02 Jun 2023 Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
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