Total investments

23

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

0.77

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingElectronicsService Industry

Summary

In 1994 was created CEI Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Portland. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this CEI Ventures works on 0 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the CEI Ventures, startups are often financed by Maine Angels, Rand Capital, Maine Venture Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Maine Venture Fund, Rand Capital, Maine Technology Institute. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Hearst Ventures, Rand Capital, Coastal Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Hyperlite Mountain Gear, Ektron, Genicon. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Real Time. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
4
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.77
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • Enterprise Software (3)
  • Health Care (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (22)
  • South Africa (1)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
13

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CourseStorm 08 Feb 2019 Software, Information Technology, E-Learning, Education Early Stage Venture 1M United States, Maine
Isis for Women 01 Jun 2007 E-Commerce, Lifestyle, Women's Seed 400K United States, Boulder, Colorado
Ovia Health 08 Oct 2013 Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care, mHealth Seed 1M United States, Massachusetts, Boston

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