Blank Slate Ventures

Total investments

20

Average round size

537K

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

1.82

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

2

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailHealth CareCareer PlanningManufacturingMedicalLifestyleHardware

Summary

Blank Slate Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chattanooga.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SupplyHog, Variable, Advanced Catheter Therapies. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Education. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Blank Slate Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Blank Slate Ventures performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2012. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Blank Slate Ventures, startups are often financed by Chattanooga Renaissance Fund, Innova Memphis, Solidus Company. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Solidus Company, Lamp Post Group, Chattanooga Renaissance Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Chattanooga Renaissance Fund, The JumpFund, Techstars Atlanta, in partnership with Cox Enterprises.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.82
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (6)
  • E-Commerce (3)
  • Internet (3)
  • Health Care (2)
  • Medical (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
  • Argentina (2)
  • New Zealand (1)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2012

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
58K
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Jenfi 17 Apr 2020 Financial Services, FinTech, Business Development, Lending Seed Central, Singapore, Singapore
Quickcue 01 Nov 2012 Restaurants, Hospitality, Developer APIs Seed 1M United States, Tennessee, Chattanooga
SupplyHog 01 Mar 2012 E-Commerce, Construction, E-Commerce Platforms Seed 400K United States, Tennessee, Chattanooga
Trim 20 Jul 2016 Financial Services, FinTech, Analytics, Information Technology, Consumer, Database Seed 2M United States, California, San Francisco
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