Bridge Investments

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

47

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

39

Rounds per year

1.81

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningFashionLegalLegal Tech

Summary

Bridge Investments is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Highland Park.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Bridge Investments, startups are often financed by gener8tor, VTF Capital, Lakewest Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RiverPark Ventures, Lyrical Partners, KarpReilly. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lakewest Venture Partners, Jumpstart Ventures, Harvard Business School Angels Chicago.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Search Engine. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Heureka Software, Semantify, ABODO

The high activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This Bridge Investments works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailGoodsHealthcareWellness & FitnessFoodtech Show 4 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries B

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
47
Lead investments
0
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.81
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • Software (13)
  • Internet (9)
  • Legal (9)
  • Machine Learning (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2015

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AnyCreek 13 Jun 2024 Seed 1M United States, Tennessee, Memphis
TermScout 05 May 2022 Information Services, Business Intelligence Seed 5M United States, Colorado, Louisville
Zenklub 10 Feb 2021 Internet, Health Care, Psychology Early Stage Venture 8M São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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