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Boston Seed Capital

Founders Nicole Stata Peter Blacklow

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Total investments 112
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 74
Rounds per year 8.00
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 22
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Internet
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
Summary

Boston Seed Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Software. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Playfull, Fam, Mylestone Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Boston Seed Capital, startups are often financed by Techstars, Techstars Boston Accelerator, Right Side Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CVP, Atlas Venture, Wayne Chang. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NextView Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Boston Seed Capital works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund was created by Nicole Stata, Peter Blacklow. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EnFi

$7M13 Jun 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Splash Sports

Gaming
Sports
$14M31 Jan 2024 Denver, Colorado, United States

Rithmm

Analytics
Information Technology
Predictive Analytics
Sports
$2M05 Jun 2023 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States

BG Networks

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
$4M14 Mar 2023 Weston, Massachusetts, United States

Spren

$11M11 Oct 2022 -

Sotero

Analytics
Data Integration
Information Technology
Software
$8M20 Jul 2022 Massachusetts, United States

VulcanForms

$355M05 Jul 2022 -

Electives

EdTech
Information Technology
Marketplace
$8M31 Mar 2022 -

Electives

EdTech
Information Technology
Marketplace
$2M13 Oct 2021 -
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Dapper Labs and Boston Seed Capital Invest in NFT Tracking and Engagement Platform MomentRanks as Part of $1.7M Seed Round

– MomentRanks secured $1.7m in seed round funding from a group of investors, including blockchain leader Dapper Labs, Boston Seed Capital and Permit Ventures.
– The rapidly growing startup, which allows collectors to track, appraise and analyze NBA Top Shot moments and engage with the NFT community, will use its seed round investments to scale up development of its infrastructure, grow its team of data scientists and engineers, and further enhance the NFT collectors’ journey.
– MomentRanks launched in February 2021 and is the most-visited platform for NBA Top Shot digital asset appraisals.

InSpace Raises $6M in Seed Funding

– InSpace, a Burlington Vt-based provider of a collaborative video conferencing platform that replicates personal interaction between students and teachers in virtual classrooms, raised $6M in two seed funding rounds.
– The funding was led by a $2.6 million investment from Boston Seed Capital and $1.5m each from Gutbrain Ventures and PBJ Capital, in addition to other investors including John Abele (co-founder, Boston Scientific); Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang (co-founders, Crashlytics and Digits); Rick Gibbs (co-founder, Dealer.com); Hovhannes Avoyan and Mikayel Vardanyan (founder and chief product officer, PicsArt); and Andrew Artz (partner at Social Capital). 
– The company intennds to use the funds to expand its business reach and development efforts.

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Total investments 112
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 8.00
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 22
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EnFi

$7M13 Jun 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Splash Sports

Gaming
Sports
$14M31 Jan 2024 Denver, Colorado, United States

Rithmm

Analytics
Information Technology
Predictive Analytics
Sports
$2M05 Jun 2023 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States

BG Networks

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
$4M14 Mar 2023 Weston, Massachusetts, United States

Spren

$11M11 Oct 2022 -

Sotero

Analytics
Data Integration
Information Technology
Software
$8M20 Jul 2022 Massachusetts, United States

VulcanForms

$355M05 Jul 2022 -

Electives

EdTech
Information Technology
Marketplace
$8M31 Mar 2022 -

Electives

EdTech
Information Technology
Marketplace
$2M13 Oct 2021 -
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