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Acorn Ventures

Founders Rufus Lumry

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 4
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Information Technology
  • Electronics
  • Professional Networking
  • Internet of Things
Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Bellevue.

The current fund was established by Rufus Lumry. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2016. This Acorn Ventures works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Private Social Networking, Professional Networking.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Acorn Ventures, startups are often financed by Storm Ventures, CMEA Capital, Richard Galanti. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Storm Ventures, InveStar Capital, CMEA Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Storm Ventures, Greylock Partners, Enterprise Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Utrip

Artificial Intelligence
Ediscovery
Travel
$4M20 Feb 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Flyp

Mobile
Telecommunications
$5M01 Feb 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

RapidStream

Electronics
Information Technology
Internet
Internet of Things
Private Social Networking
Professional Networking
Software
Telecommunications
$25M22 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Sanera Systems

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Web Hosting
$17M01 Sep 2000 San Jose, California, United States

RapidStream

Electronics
Information Technology
Internet
Internet of Things
Private Social Networking
Professional Networking
Software
Telecommunications
$15M01 Jan 1999 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 12M
Peak activity year 2001
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Utrip

Artificial Intelligence
Ediscovery
Travel
$4M20 Feb 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Flyp

Mobile
Telecommunications
$5M01 Feb 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

RapidStream

Electronics
Information Technology
Internet
Internet of Things
Private Social Networking
Professional Networking
Software
Telecommunications
$25M22 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Sanera Systems

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Web Hosting
$17M01 Sep 2000 San Jose, California, United States

RapidStream

Electronics
Information Technology
Internet
Internet of Things
Private Social Networking
Professional Networking
Software
Telecommunications
$15M01 Jan 1999 San Jose, California, United States
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