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City Light Capital

Founders Josh Cohen

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Total investments 157
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 113
Rounds per year 7.85
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 10
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Wellness
  • Education
  • Information Technology
Summary

City Light Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2004. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This City Light Capital works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from City Light Capital is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

This organization was formed by Josh Cohen. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ginger, RapidSOS, Digital Signal Corporation. 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the City Light Capital, startups are often financed by Labrador Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Claremont Creek Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Rethink Education, Highland Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Highland Capital Partners, Levensohn Venture Partners, The Westly Group.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

1s1 Energy

Energy Management
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
15 Oct 2024 California, United States

Angel AI Company

EdTech
Primary Education
$1M05 Sep 2024 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Clarity Pediatrics

$10M22 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Conduce Health

$3M20 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

Chamber Cardio

$8M06 Mar 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Salvo Health

Health Care
$5M29 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

Forum

Health Care
$5M08 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Affect Therapeutics

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$16M12 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Evergreen Renewables

Energy
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
$6M27 Mar 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States
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EveryDay Labs Raises $8M in Series A Funding

– EveryDay Labs from Redwood City CA raised $8m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Rethink Impact with participation from Reach Capital, Gary Community Ventures, City Light Capital, RedHouse Education, Edovate Capital Bonsal Capital and Copper Wire Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to scale its research-based communication tools.

Bicycle Health Raises $27M in Series A Funding

– Bicycle Health, a Boston, MA-based virtual care provider of evidence based treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), raised $27M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Questa Capital with participation from City Light Capital, Emily Melton and previous investor SignalFire.
– The company will use the capital to expand its clinician network, partner with additional payers, invest in research and continue building local community partnerships to reach those without other treatment options.

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Total investments 157
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 7.85
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

1s1 Energy

Energy Management
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
15 Oct 2024 California, United States

Angel AI Company

EdTech
Primary Education
$1M05 Sep 2024 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Clarity Pediatrics

$10M22 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Conduce Health

$3M20 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

Chamber Cardio

$8M06 Mar 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Salvo Health

Health Care
$5M29 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

Forum

Health Care
$5M08 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Affect Therapeutics

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$16M12 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Evergreen Renewables

Energy
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
$6M27 Mar 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States
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