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Center Electric

Founders Andy Smith Jay Adelson

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 2.22
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 2
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Consumer Electronics
  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Smart Home
  • Mobile
Summary

In 2014 was created Center Electric, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mesosphere, NS1, August Home. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Electronics. 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 5-6 partakers. Despite the Center Electric, startups are often financed by Uncork Capital, The Cross Country Group, Morado Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Uncork Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Morado Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Two Sigma Ventures, IGNIA, Data Collective DCVC.

The fund was created by Andy Smith, Jay Adelson. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Opposing the other organizations, this Center Electric works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Center Electric is 100-500 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nubix.io

Software
$2M16 Dec 2020 Denver, Colorado, United States

Roost AI

Cloud Infrastructure
Computer
Enterprise Software
Software
$3M18 Sep 2019 San Jose, California, United States

goTenna

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Messaging
Mobile
Privacy
Software
$7M02 Mar 2016 New York, United States

FreeWire Technologies

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Energy Management
Renewable Energy
$1M01 Jan 2016 California, United States

Roost

Consumer
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Smart Home
$5M02 Sep 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Spansive

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
$3M17 Jul 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

NS1

Internet
Software
Web Hosting
$5M07 Apr 2015 New York, New York, United States

August Home

Consumer Electronics
Internet of Things
Smart Home
$38M25 Mar 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

ParkiFi

Parking
Real Time
Sensor
Transportation
Travel
$1M20 Mar 2015 Denver, Colorado, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 2.22
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nubix.io

Software
$2M16 Dec 2020 Denver, Colorado, United States

Roost AI

Cloud Infrastructure
Computer
Enterprise Software
Software
$3M18 Sep 2019 San Jose, California, United States

goTenna

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Messaging
Mobile
Privacy
Software
$7M02 Mar 2016 New York, United States

FreeWire Technologies

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Energy Management
Renewable Energy
$1M01 Jan 2016 California, United States

Roost

Consumer
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Smart Home
$5M02 Sep 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Spansive

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
$3M17 Jul 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

NS1

Internet
Software
Web Hosting
$5M07 Apr 2015 New York, New York, United States

August Home

Consumer Electronics
Internet of Things
Smart Home
$38M25 Mar 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

ParkiFi

Parking
Real Time
Sensor
Transportation
Travel
$1M20 Mar 2015 Denver, Colorado, United States
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