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BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation

Founders Jeffery Harris Thomas Shannon

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Total investments 68
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 47
Rounds per year 6.80
Lead investments 10
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 2
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Medical
  • E-Commerce
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Midwest Games

Computer
Marketing
$3M30 Oct 2023 Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States

CHILD Health Imprints (CHIL)

Health Care
Information Technology
$2M09 Jan 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

ReadySet

Software
Virtual Reality
$3M27 May 2022 De Pere, Wisconsin, United States

Spotz

Events
Facility Management
Information Technology
Reservations
Software
$100K15 Mar 2022 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Immuto Scientific

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$2M08 Oct 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Agricycle

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Product Management
Sustainability
Waste Management
$2M01 Sep 2021 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Agricycle

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Product Management
Sustainability
Waste Management
$1M24 Apr 2020 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Ideawake

Crowdfunding
Crowdsourcing
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$780K30 Jul 2019 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Arbré

Agriculture
AgTech
Aquaculture
Cannabis
Farming
Flowers
GreenTech
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$600K08 Jul 2019 Wisconsin, United States

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Total investments 68
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 6.80
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.59

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Midwest Games

Computer
Marketing
$3M30 Oct 2023 Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States

CHILD Health Imprints (CHIL)

Health Care
Information Technology
$2M09 Jan 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

ReadySet

Software
Virtual Reality
$3M27 May 2022 De Pere, Wisconsin, United States

Spotz

Events
Facility Management
Information Technology
Reservations
Software
$100K15 Mar 2022 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Immuto Scientific

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$2M08 Oct 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Agricycle

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Product Management
Sustainability
Waste Management
$2M01 Sep 2021 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Agricycle

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Product Management
Sustainability
Waste Management
$1M24 Apr 2020 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Ideawake

Crowdfunding
Crowdsourcing
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$780K30 Jul 2019 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Arbré

Agriculture
AgTech
Aquaculture
Cannabis
Farming
Flowers
GreenTech
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$600K08 Jul 2019 Wisconsin, United States
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