BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation
Venture Capital, Non-Profit
Active
Milwaukee, United States
68
1M
47
6.80
10
0.31
2
- Areas of investment
Summary
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Milwaukee.
Opposing the other organizations, this BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2016.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, startups are often financed by Wisconsin Investment Partners, Jeff Rusinow, Great Oaks Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are gener8tor, Wisconsin Investment Partners, Angels on the Water. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wisconsin Investment Partners, gener8tor, Alumni Ventures Group.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fetch Rewards, SteamChain, Whole Trees. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Social Media, Medical.
The fund was created by Jeffery Harris, Thomas Shannon.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 68
- Lead investments
- 10
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 6.80
- Follow on index
- 0.31
- Investments by industry
- Software (22)
- Health Care (21)
- Information Technology (13)
- Medical (11)
- E-Commerce (7) Show 87 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (67)
- Singapore (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 48M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.59
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immuto Scientific | 08 Oct 2021 | Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical | Seed | 2M | United States, Wisconsin, Madison |
| Midwest Games | 30 Oct 2023 | Marketing, Computer | Seed | 3M | United States, Wisconsin, Green Bay |
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