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Act One Ventures

Founders Alejandro Guerrero Michael Silton

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Total investments 64
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 38
Rounds per year 8.00
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Financial Services
  • E-Commerce
  • FinTech
Summary

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

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Opposing the other organizations, this Act One Ventures works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Act One Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Act One Ventures, startups are often financed by TenOneTen Ventures, Techstars, Slow Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mucker Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, Wonder Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vertical Venture Partners, TenOneTen Ventures, Nosara Capital.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Narrativ, Dray Alliance, Tapcart The fund has 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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Internet. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cartwheel

Delivery
Enterprise Software
Food and Beverage
Last Mile Transportation
Location Based Services
Logistics
Navigation
Same Day Delivery
Software
Transportation
01 Mar 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Crediverso

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
$3M26 Sep 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Heard Technologies

Health Care
Wellness
$15M22 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Cartwheel

Delivery
Enterprise Software
Food and Beverage
Last Mile Transportation
Location Based Services
Logistics
Navigation
Same Day Delivery
Software
Transportation
$3M28 Apr 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Dragonboat

Collaboration
Product Management
SaaS
Software
$12M07 Dec 2021 Santa Clara, California, United States

Camlist

Apps
Mobile Apps
Pet
$1M25 Nov 2021 -

Clovers

Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources
Recruiting
Software
Video
$15M21 Sep 2021 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Time Study

Artificial Intelligence
Data Integration
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Health Care
Hospital
Internet of Things
Productivity Tools
Software
$1M01 Sep 2021 Richmond, Virginia, United States

Dragonboat

Collaboration
Product Management
SaaS
Software
$3M15 Jul 2021 Santa Clara, California, United States
News
Clovers Scores $15M Seed Financing Round

– Clovers, a human resources technology firm leveraging conversational intelligence to improve interviewing and hiring practices, today announced it has raised $15m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Greycroft and Alpha Edison with participation from Crosslink Capital, Acadian Ventures, Fika Ventures and Act One Ventures.
– Clovers is the intelligent interview platform that uses human and conversational intelligence to accelerate hiring, uncover bias, and put the right people in the right role every time.

Dragonboat Raises $3M in Seed Funding

– Dragonboat is a Product Portfolio Management platform based in Santa Clara.
– The company raised $3M in seed funding.
– The round was led by Act One Ventures, Roble Ventures and GingerBread Capital with participation from strategic angels including Tom Bogan, former CEO of Adaptive Insights; Rob Hull, Co-founder of Adaptive Insights; Eddie Machaalani, Co-Founder of Bigcommerce; and Nuno Sebastiao, Co-Founder of Feedzai.
– The new funding will be used to continue to grow the team across all functions and accelerate the adoption of its Product Portfolio Management platform for outcome focused teams.

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Total investments 64
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 8.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cartwheel

Delivery
Enterprise Software
Food and Beverage
Last Mile Transportation
Location Based Services
Logistics
Navigation
Same Day Delivery
Software
Transportation
01 Mar 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Crediverso

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
$3M26 Sep 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Heard Technologies

Health Care
Wellness
$15M22 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Cartwheel

Delivery
Enterprise Software
Food and Beverage
Last Mile Transportation
Location Based Services
Logistics
Navigation
Same Day Delivery
Software
Transportation
$3M28 Apr 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Dragonboat

Collaboration
Product Management
SaaS
Software
$12M07 Dec 2021 Santa Clara, California, United States

Camlist

Apps
Mobile Apps
Pet
$1M25 Nov 2021 -

Clovers

Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources
Recruiting
Software
Video
$15M21 Sep 2021 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Time Study

Artificial Intelligence
Data Integration
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Health Care
Hospital
Internet of Things
Productivity Tools
Software
$1M01 Sep 2021 Richmond, Virginia, United States

Dragonboat

Collaboration
Product Management
SaaS
Software
$3M15 Jul 2021 Santa Clara, California, United States
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