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Boost VC

Founders Adam Draper Brayton Williams

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Total investments 300
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 249
Rounds per year 25.00
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 22
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Virtual Reality
  • FinTech
  • Bitcoin
  • Blockchain
Summary

Boost VC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Mateo.

The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Boost VC is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Boost VC performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The current fund was established by Adam Draper, Brayton Williams. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Boost VC, startups are often financed by Digital Currency Group, Y Combinator, LAUNCHub Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tim Draper, Draper Associates, The Venture Reality Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tim Draper, Pantera Capital, Digital Finance Group.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Bitcoin, Augmented Reality. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coinbase, Filecoin, Veem. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AstroBeam

PC Games
Virtual Reality
$3M08 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Pageport

$1M16 Oct 2023 -

Cascade Biocatalysts

Biotechnology
Chemical
Manufacturing
$2M22 Aug 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Space DOTS Ltd

Advanced Materials
Aerospace
Nanotechnology
Space Travel
$1M25 Jul 2023 Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Train Fitness

Artificial Intelligence
Fitness
Software
$2M21 Jun 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ResearchHub

Blockchain
Consumer Research
Information Services
$5M15 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

TRL11

Aerospace
Battery
Manufacturing
Sensor
$3M23 May 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Radiant

Energy
Renewable Energy
$40M18 Apr 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Argo Space

$2M13 Apr 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States
News
Octane AI Raises $5M in Funding

– Octane AI from San Francisco develops a data marketing platform to help ecommerce marketers collect zero-party data and power a personalized customer journey.
– The company raised $5m in funding.
– The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Bullpen Capital, General Catalyst and Boost VC.
– In conjunction with the funding, the company added Alex Gurevich, Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners, as a Board Observer, Alex Gurevich (a different one) as new VP of Finance and Operations, and Vincent Silvey as VP of Engineering.

Agnostiq Raises $2M in Seed Funding

– Agnostiq, Inc. from Toronto is a quantum computing SaaS startup.
– The company raised $2m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Differential Ventures, with follow-on participation from Scout Ventures, Tensility Venture Partners, Boost VC, and Green Egg Ventures.
– The new investment will be used for continued development of its software platform.

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Total investments 300
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 25.00
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 22
Group Appearance index 0.47

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AstroBeam

PC Games
Virtual Reality
$3M08 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Pageport

$1M16 Oct 2023 -

Cascade Biocatalysts

Biotechnology
Chemical
Manufacturing
$2M22 Aug 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Space DOTS Ltd

Advanced Materials
Aerospace
Nanotechnology
Space Travel
$1M25 Jul 2023 Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Train Fitness

Artificial Intelligence
Fitness
Software
$2M21 Jun 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ResearchHub

Blockchain
Consumer Research
Information Services
$5M15 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

TRL11

Aerospace
Battery
Manufacturing
Sensor
$3M23 May 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Radiant

Energy
Renewable Energy
$40M18 Apr 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Argo Space

$2M13 Apr 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States
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