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Capital Factory

Founders Andrew Busey Bryan Menell Gordon Daugherty Joshua Baer Sam Decker

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Total investments 208
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 170
Rounds per year 13.87
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 17
Key employees 26
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
Summary

Capital Factory is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Austin. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Analytics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SpareFoot, OutboundEngine, OneDrop Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 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.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Capital Factory, startups are often financed by Techstars, Techstars Ventures, Mercury Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Next Coast Ventures, LiveOak Venture Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mercury Fund, Noro-Moseley Partners, NextGen Venture Partners.

This organization was formed by Bryan Menell, Joshua Baer, Sam Decker. We also calculated 26 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. When the investment is from Capital Factory the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Capital Factory works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Big Sur AI

$6M13 Mar 2024 Mountain View, California, United States

Harbor

Baby
Child Care
Children
$3M01 Feb 2024 -

Motif Neurotech

Health Care
Medical
$18M24 Jan 2024 Houston, Texas, United States

Darkhive

$4M30 Nov 2023 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Virdee, Inc.

Apps
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Software
$12M15 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Handraise

Customer Service
Software
Web Development
$6M12 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Proteus Space

Aerospace
Government
Manufacturing
National Security
Space Travel
Supply Chain Management
$4M12 Jul 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Spooler™ est 2016

Apps
Consulting
E-Commerce
Software
$288K21 May 2023 Laguna Beach, California, United States

Worlds

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$21M03 Jan 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States
News
Income Insurance Startup Asteya Launches With $10 Million in Funding

– Income insurance startup Asteya announces its launch and disclosed fundraising of $10 million.
– Investors include I2BF Ventures, Capital Factory, Cap Meridian Ventures, Northstar Ventures, Atrum, as well as angel investors Whitney Wolfe Herd and Geeta Sankappanavar.
– Asteya™ was founded by CEO Alex Williamson, the former Chief Brand Officer at Bumble and Hadi Radwan, Chief Product Officer.
– The company is working with A-rated carriers including Munich Re and certain underwriters at Lloyd’s.
– Asteya’s solution is purpose-built to help give people peace of mind through the unanticipated circumstances that have increasingly become facts of life.
– Asteya’s applications are completely online and users may get coverage within minutes rather than days and weeks.

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Total investments 208
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 13.87
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Big Sur AI

$6M13 Mar 2024 Mountain View, California, United States

Harbor

Baby
Child Care
Children
$3M01 Feb 2024 -

Motif Neurotech

Health Care
Medical
$18M24 Jan 2024 Houston, Texas, United States

Darkhive

$4M30 Nov 2023 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Virdee, Inc.

Apps
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Software
$12M15 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Handraise

Customer Service
Software
Web Development
$6M12 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Proteus Space

Aerospace
Government
Manufacturing
National Security
Space Travel
Supply Chain Management
$4M12 Jul 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Spooler™ est 2016

Apps
Consulting
E-Commerce
Software
$288K21 May 2023 Laguna Beach, California, United States

Worlds

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$21M03 Jan 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States
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