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Bullpen Capital

Founders Paul Martino Richard Melmon

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Total investments 182
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 109
Rounds per year 13.00
Lead investments 42
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 22
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
  • Enterprise Software
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Bullpen Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Analytics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Namely, Classy, LiveIntent Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Bullpen Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Bullpen Capital works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Bullpen Capital, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Y Combinator, True Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, True Ventures, FLOODGATE. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau.

The fund was created by Paul Martino. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ALLCITY Network

Internet Radio
Media and Entertainment
Sports
$12M20 Aug 2024 Denver, Colorado, United States

Crux OCM

Artificial Intelligence
Energy
Energy Management
Machine Learning
Oil and Gas
Software
$17M14 Aug 2024 Calgary, Canada

Roofr

Construction
Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Marketplace
$23M18 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

PredictionStrike

Sports
$10M21 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

PackageX

Delivery
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Property Management
Same Day Delivery
Smart Building
Software
Supply Chain Management
Warehousing
02 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

gopinata

Advertising
Events
Human Resources
Mobile
$10M15 May 2023 New York, United States

Pico

Digital Media
Identity Management
Mobile Payments
Payments
$10M05 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

Flick

Apps
Gaming
Mobile Apps
Sports
$4M09 Feb 2023 New York, United States

Preveta

Analytics
Business Information Systems
Health Care
Medical
$6M20 Dec 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States
News
Ocrolus Lands $80M Series C Financing Round

– Ocrolus, a San Francisco-based automation platform that analyzes financial documents with over 99% accuracy, announced $80m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Fin VC at a valuation north of $500m.
– Additional participants in the round were Thomvest Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Oak HC/FT, FinTech Collective, QED Investors, Bullpen Capital, ValueStream Ventures, Laconia, RiverPark Ventures, Invicta Growth, Stage 2 Capital, and Cross River Bank.
– The company plans to use its new funding to more aggressively build products for the mortgage lending and banking industries and expand its US operations.

CruxOCM Raises $9M Total in Venture Financing; Latest Led by Bullpen Capital

– CruxOCM is the pioneer of robotic industrial process automation (RIPA™) for control room operations.
– The company has raised $6M in venture financing to fuel growth.
– The recent round was led by Bullpen Capital, with participation from Angular Ventures, Root Ventures, Golden Ventures, Cendana Capital and Industry Ventures.
– The capital will be used to grow the company’s product lines, increase the efficiency of its installation process, and continue expanding its team across North America.

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Total investments 182
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 13.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 42
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 22
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ALLCITY Network

Internet Radio
Media and Entertainment
Sports
$12M20 Aug 2024 Denver, Colorado, United States

Crux OCM

Artificial Intelligence
Energy
Energy Management
Machine Learning
Oil and Gas
Software
$17M14 Aug 2024 Calgary, Canada

Roofr

Construction
Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Marketplace
$23M18 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

PredictionStrike

Sports
$10M21 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

PackageX

Delivery
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Property Management
Same Day Delivery
Smart Building
Software
Supply Chain Management
Warehousing
02 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

gopinata

Advertising
Events
Human Resources
Mobile
$10M15 May 2023 New York, United States

Pico

Digital Media
Identity Management
Mobile Payments
Payments
$10M05 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

Flick

Apps
Gaming
Mobile Apps
Sports
$4M09 Feb 2023 New York, United States

Preveta

Analytics
Business Information Systems
Health Care
Medical
$6M20 Dec 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States
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