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Cayuga Venture Fund

Founders Phil Proujansky

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 1.03
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 8
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Telecommunications
  • Social Media
  • Charity
  • Crowdfunding
Summary

Cayuga Venture Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. 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 Ithaca.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Cayuga Venture Fund works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Consumer Electronics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Rheonix, Agronomic Technology Corp, itellio.

The current fund was established by Phil Proujansky. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Cayuga Venture Fund, startups are often financed by Rand Capital, TeleSoft Partners, Great Oaks Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rand Capital, Excell Partners, DFJ. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rand Capital, Gefinor Capital, Onondaga Venture Capital Fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

POM - The Peace of Mind Company

Banking
Higher Education
Hospital
Information Technology
$3M22 Sep 2020 Newark, New Jersey, United States

EkoStinger

Logistics
Railroad
Transportation
01 Aug 2018 East Rochester, New York, United States

GiveGab

Charity
CRM
Crowdfunding
Non Profit
Social Media
$7M04 Apr 2018 Ithaca, New York, United States

POM - The Peace of Mind Company

Banking
Higher Education
Hospital
Information Technology
$700K10 Apr 2017 Newark, New Jersey, United States

VenueBook

Event Management
Events
Hospitality
Marketplace
SaaS
$6M28 Feb 2016 New York, United States

POM - The Peace of Mind Company

Banking
Higher Education
Hospital
Information Technology
$1M20 Jan 2016 Newark, New Jersey, United States

SocialFlow

Advertising
Publishing
Social Media
$7M07 Dec 2015 New York, United States

GiveGab

Charity
CRM
Crowdfunding
Non Profit
Social Media
$1M21 Jan 2015 Ithaca, New York, United States

Agronomic Technology

Agriculture
Big Data
Farming
Software
Sustainability
$2M08 Oct 2014 New York, United States

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Total investments 30
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 1.03
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

POM - The Peace of Mind Company

Banking
Higher Education
Hospital
Information Technology
$3M22 Sep 2020 Newark, New Jersey, United States

EkoStinger

Logistics
Railroad
Transportation
01 Aug 2018 East Rochester, New York, United States

GiveGab

Charity
CRM
Crowdfunding
Non Profit
Social Media
$7M04 Apr 2018 Ithaca, New York, United States

POM - The Peace of Mind Company

Banking
Higher Education
Hospital
Information Technology
$700K10 Apr 2017 Newark, New Jersey, United States

VenueBook

Event Management
Events
Hospitality
Marketplace
SaaS
$6M28 Feb 2016 New York, United States

POM - The Peace of Mind Company

Banking
Higher Education
Hospital
Information Technology
$1M20 Jan 2016 Newark, New Jersey, United States

SocialFlow

Advertising
Publishing
Social Media
$7M07 Dec 2015 New York, United States

GiveGab

Charity
CRM
Crowdfunding
Non Profit
Social Media
$1M21 Jan 2015 Ithaca, New York, United States

Agronomic Technology

Agriculture
Big Data
Farming
Software
Sustainability
$2M08 Oct 2014 New York, United States
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