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Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

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Total investments 135
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 114
Rounds per year 19.29
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 2
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
Summary

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Berkeley.

The overall number of key employees were 6.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SiFive, Aura Health, Prophecy.io. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Mobile Apps.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, startups are often financed by Berkeley SkyDeck, SmartGateVC, Granatus Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shanda Group, SmartGateVC, Ironfire Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SmartHub, Ironfire Ventures, Sierra Ventures.

The typical startup value when the investment from Berkeley SkyDeck Fund is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SUN METALON

3D Printing
3D Technology
03 Oct 2024 Redondo Beach, California, United States

SirenOpt

Aerospace
Battery
Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Software
$6M23 Jul 2024 Oakland, California, United States

Jacobi Robotics

Information Technology
Robotics
Software
$5M11 Jul 2024 Berkeley, California, United States

El Dorado

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M28 May 2024 Colombia, Colombia

Chemix

$20M24 Apr 2024 -

Loft Labs

Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Information Services
Information Technology
Property Management
Real Estate
Rental Property
Software
$24M16 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Enkrypt AI

$2M27 Feb 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Essence App

Health Care
$600K08 Feb 2024 -

Okomera

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$12M20 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
News
Loft Labs Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding

– Loft Labs is a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a solution which enables platform teams in large enterprises to give engineers self-service access to Kubernetes.
– The company raised $4.6m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Fusion Fund, with participation from RTP Seed, Emergent Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, as well as angel investor and Puppet CTO Abby Kearns, who recently joined the company’s advisory board.

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Total investments 135
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 19.29
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.54

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SUN METALON

3D Printing
3D Technology
03 Oct 2024 Redondo Beach, California, United States

SirenOpt

Aerospace
Battery
Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Software
$6M23 Jul 2024 Oakland, California, United States

Jacobi Robotics

Information Technology
Robotics
Software
$5M11 Jul 2024 Berkeley, California, United States

El Dorado

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M28 May 2024 Colombia, Colombia

Chemix

$20M24 Apr 2024 -

Loft Labs

Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Information Services
Information Technology
Property Management
Real Estate
Rental Property
Software
$24M16 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Enkrypt AI

$2M27 Feb 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Essence App

Health Care
$600K08 Feb 2024 -

Okomera

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$12M20 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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