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Aera VC

Founders Derek Handley Keenan Kwok Nick Winstone

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Total investments 36
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 5.14
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Food and Beverage
  • Manufacturing
  • Health Care
  • Logistics
Summary

In 2015 was created Aera VC, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Derek Handley, Keenan Kwok, Nick Winstone.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Andela, Solugen, For Days. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Aera VC, startups are often financed by CRE Venture Capital, Spark Capital, GV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, TLcom Capital Partners, Spark Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Refactor Capital, Founders Fund, Y Combinator.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Allium Engineering

$3M13 Mar 2024 Peabody, Massachusetts, United States

Cosmic Aerospace

$4M06 Feb 2024 -

Robigo

Biotechnology
23 Apr 2023 -

Robigo

Biotechnology
$6M15 Feb 2023 -

Fable Food Co

Food and Beverage
$8M08 Feb 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Open Forest Protocol

Blockchain
Environmental Consulting
Environmental Engineering
$4M10 Jan 2023 Zug, Zug, Switzerland

Dawn Aerospace

Aerospace
Space Travel
29 Sep 2022 Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Noya

31 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

AstroForge

$13M26 May 2022 Huntington Beach, California, United States
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Mushroom-based meat alternative startup Fable Food raises $6.5M AUD, will launch in the US

– Sydney-based Fable Food, a plant-based food startup, raised $6.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Blackbird Ventures and joined by AgFunder, Aera VC, Better Bite Ventures, Ban Choon Marketing and former Sequoia Capital partner Warren Hogarth.
– The company plans to launch in the United States by the end of this year.

Fable Food Co Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding

– Fable Food Co is a meat alternative company based in Sydney, Australia.
– The company raised $6.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Blackbird Ventures with participation from AgFunder, Aera VC and Better Bite Ventures, Ban Choon Marketing Pte Ltd and Warren Hogarth.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s production and manufacturing capabilities in Australia and abroad, for research and development, and to accelerate the launch of new meaty mushroom products to market.

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Total investments 36
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 5.14
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.25
Group Appearance index 0.61

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Allium Engineering

$3M13 Mar 2024 Peabody, Massachusetts, United States

Cosmic Aerospace

$4M06 Feb 2024 -

Robigo

Biotechnology
23 Apr 2023 -

Robigo

Biotechnology
$6M15 Feb 2023 -

Fable Food Co

Food and Beverage
$8M08 Feb 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Open Forest Protocol

Blockchain
Environmental Consulting
Environmental Engineering
$4M10 Jan 2023 Zug, Zug, Switzerland

Dawn Aerospace

Aerospace
Space Travel
29 Sep 2022 Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Noya

31 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

AstroForge

$13M26 May 2022 Huntington Beach, California, United States
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