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Bloom Equity

Founders Ian Shearer

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$531K
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.75
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Oil and Gas
  • Sustainability
  • SaaS
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Bloom Equity appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The company was established in Europe in Ireland. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Dublin.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2012.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Bloom Equity, startups are often financed by NDRC, Enterprise Ireland, Enterprise Equity. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ireland, Tribal.vc, Halo Business Angel Network. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polaris Partners, Frontline Ventures, Susquehanna Growth Equity.

The current fund was established by Ian Shearer. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Ireland. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Boxever, Phorest. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile Apps, Machine Learning. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Umba

Emerging Markets
Financial Services
FinTech
Micro Lending
Mobile Apps
06 May 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Payslip

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$1M28 Feb 2018 Ireland, County Mayo, Ireland

Iconic Translation Machines

Intellectual Property
Local
SaaS
Software
$472K23 Jul 2015 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Boxever

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Personalization
SaaS
Software
Travel
$1M01 Apr 2012 Ireland, County Dublin

Fantom

Brand Marketing
Publishing
$600K23 Dec 2011 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Phorest

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Social CRM
Software
$1M18 Aug 2011 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

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Total investments 9
Average round size 531K
Rounds per year 0.75
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Umba

Emerging Markets
Financial Services
FinTech
Micro Lending
Mobile Apps
06 May 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Payslip

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$1M28 Feb 2018 Ireland, County Mayo, Ireland

Iconic Translation Machines

Intellectual Property
Local
SaaS
Software
$472K23 Jul 2015 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Boxever

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Personalization
SaaS
Software
Travel
$1M01 Apr 2012 Ireland, County Dublin

Fantom

Brand Marketing
Publishing
$600K23 Dec 2011 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Phorest

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Social CRM
Software
$1M18 Aug 2011 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
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