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Calumet Venture Fund

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.69
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.67
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • SaaS
  • Human Resources
  • Enterprise Software
  • Staffing Agency
  • Video
Summary

Calumet Venture Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Madison.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2011. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Calumet Venture Fund, startups are often financed by General Communication, Baird Capital, Omphalos Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are General Communication, Baird Capital, Omphalos Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Baird Capital, Omphalos Venture Partners, HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Faculte, OptiMine Software, Montage The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Enterprise Software.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OptiMine Software

Advertising
Digital Media
SaaS
Software
$2M09 Jan 2015 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Montage

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Staffing Agency
Video
$6M05 Jun 2014 Wisconsin, United States

OptiMine Software

Advertising
Digital Media
SaaS
Software
$5M22 Jan 2014 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Montage

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Staffing Agency
Video
$4M27 Dec 2012 Wisconsin, United States

OptiMine Software

Advertising
Digital Media
SaaS
Software
$7M24 Oct 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

OptiMine Software

Advertising
Digital Media
SaaS
Software
$1M05 Jan 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Montage

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Staffing Agency
Video
$4M10 Sep 2010 Wisconsin, United States

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Total investments 9
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 0.69
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.67
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OptiMine Software

Advertising
Digital Media
SaaS
Software
$2M09 Jan 2015 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Montage

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Staffing Agency
Video
$6M05 Jun 2014 Wisconsin, United States

OptiMine Software

Advertising
Digital Media
SaaS
Software
$5M22 Jan 2014 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Montage

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Staffing Agency
Video
$4M27 Dec 2012 Wisconsin, United States

OptiMine Software

Advertising
Digital Media
SaaS
Software
$7M24 Oct 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

OptiMine Software

Advertising
Digital Media
SaaS
Software
$1M05 Jan 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Montage

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Staffing Agency
Video
$4M10 Sep 2010 Wisconsin, United States
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