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Blue Water Angels

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.86
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Hospital
  • Health Care
  • Clinical Trials
Summary

Blue Water Angels is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Midland.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Web Hosting, Biotechnology. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AzulStar, Ocuphire Pharma, RetroSense Therapeutics. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Blue Water Angels works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Blue Water Angels is 1-5 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Blue Water Angels, startups are often financed by National Science Foundation, Ann Arbor SPARK, Tech Coast Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Biosciences Research and Commercialization Center (BRCC), Northern Michigan Angels, Grand Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by National Science Foundation, Santen Pharmaceutical, RBV Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ocuphire Pharma

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$5M22 Jul 2019 Michigan, United States

GreenMark Biomedical

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
$670K20 Mar 2019 Michigan, United States

Life Magnetics, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$208K01 Aug 2018 Detroit, Michigan, United States

GreenMark Biomedical

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
$500K29 Jun 2018 Michigan, United States

RetroSense Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Therapeutics
$6M12 Nov 2015 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

RetroSense Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Therapeutics
$6M08 Jan 2015 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Life Magnetics, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$120K04 Oct 2013 Detroit, Michigan, United States

GreenLancer

Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$500K11 Jul 2013 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Instore

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Point of Sale
SaaS
25 Oct 2011 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 0.86
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ocuphire Pharma

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$5M22 Jul 2019 Michigan, United States

GreenMark Biomedical

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
$670K20 Mar 2019 Michigan, United States

Life Magnetics, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$208K01 Aug 2018 Detroit, Michigan, United States

GreenMark Biomedical

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
$500K29 Jun 2018 Michigan, United States

RetroSense Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Therapeutics
$6M12 Nov 2015 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

RetroSense Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Therapeutics
$6M08 Jan 2015 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Life Magnetics, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$120K04 Oct 2013 Detroit, Michigan, United States

GreenLancer

Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$500K11 Jul 2013 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Instore

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Point of Sale
SaaS
25 Oct 2011 San Francisco, California, United States
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