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Blank Slate Ventures

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$537K
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 1.82
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Health Care
  • Medical
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Food Processing
Information Technology
$270K01 Mar 2020 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Escadrille

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
Sports
$419K31 Dec 2014 United States, Chattanooga

Advanced Catheter Therapies

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$3M20 Aug 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Rezli

Career Planning
Gaming
Internet
Social Network
Software
$800K07 Aug 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

DataFlyte

Aerospace
Energy
Software
$600K01 Aug 2014 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

ReadyCart

Content Creators
E-Commerce
Internet
$250K02 May 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Rapid RMS

Cloud Management
Payments
Point of Sale
Retail
Retail Technology
Software
$350K12 Mar 2014 Georgia, United States

Variable

Hardware
Manufacturing
Software
$1M25 Feb 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Quickcue

Developer APIs
Hospitality
Restaurants
$1M01 Nov 2012 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 537K
Rounds per year 1.82
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Food Processing
Information Technology
$270K01 Mar 2020 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Escadrille

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
Sports
$419K31 Dec 2014 United States, Chattanooga

Advanced Catheter Therapies

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$3M20 Aug 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Rezli

Career Planning
Gaming
Internet
Social Network
Software
$800K07 Aug 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

DataFlyte

Aerospace
Energy
Software
$600K01 Aug 2014 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

ReadyCart

Content Creators
E-Commerce
Internet
$250K02 May 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Rapid RMS

Cloud Management
Payments
Point of Sale
Retail
Retail Technology
Software
$350K12 Mar 2014 Georgia, United States

Variable

Hardware
Manufacturing
Software
$1M25 Feb 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Quickcue

Developer APIs
Hospitality
Restaurants
$1M01 Nov 2012 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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