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Beacon Angels

Founders Dan Von Kohorn Lex Kelso William Swiggart

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Total investments 29
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 1.61
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 6
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Software
  • Information Technology
Summary

Beacon Angels is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Boston.

The fund was created by Dan Von Kohorn, Lex Kelso, William Swiggart.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Beacon Angels, startups are often financed by Cherrystone Angel Group, Maine Angels, Keiretsu Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are LaunchPad Venture Group, Boston Harbor Angels, North Country Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cherrystone Angel Group, Maine Angels, PROOF.VC.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Copiun, Siamab Therapeutics, GateRocket. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Marketing.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from Beacon Angels is 1-5 millions dollars. This Beacon Angels works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RBI medical

$2M02 Apr 2024 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Jaia Robotics

Autonomous Vehicles
Marine Technology
Robotics
$1M21 Jun 2022 Newport, Rhode Island, United States

AOA

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M15 Nov 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

AOA

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M28 Jun 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Lenoss Medical

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical
$1M25 Mar 2021 -

First Light Diagnostics

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$8M16 Jan 2019 Massachusetts, United States

Spiro.AI

CRM
Direct Sales
Information Technology
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$1M09 Jul 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pykus Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
01 Jan 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

XCube R&D Inc

Infrastructure
Machine Learning
Software
Training
$1M01 May 2016 Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

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Total investments 29
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 1.61
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RBI medical

$2M02 Apr 2024 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Jaia Robotics

Autonomous Vehicles
Marine Technology
Robotics
$1M21 Jun 2022 Newport, Rhode Island, United States

AOA

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M15 Nov 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

AOA

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M28 Jun 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Lenoss Medical

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical
$1M25 Mar 2021 -

First Light Diagnostics

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$8M16 Jan 2019 Massachusetts, United States

Spiro.AI

CRM
Direct Sales
Information Technology
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$1M09 Jul 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pykus Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
01 Jan 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

XCube R&D Inc

Infrastructure
Machine Learning
Software
Training
$1M01 May 2016 Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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