Cleveland Avenue

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

129

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

65

Rounds per year

14.33

Lead investments

22

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareConsumer GoodsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageFood ProcessingSaaSRestaurantsWine And Spirits

Summary

In 2017 was created Cleveland Avenue, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.

The fund was created by Don Thompson. The overall number of key employees were 1.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Beyond Meat, ZeroCater, Farmer's Fridge Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Snack Food, Service Industry. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This Cleveland Avenue works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Cleveland Avenue is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the Cleveland Avenue, startups are often financed by PowerPlant Ventures, DNS Capital, gener8tor. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DNS Capital, Tyson Foods, PowerPlant Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DNS Capital, Tyson Foods, Revolution.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FoodtechTraveltech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
129
Lead investments
22
Exits
3
Rounds per year
14.33
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Food and Beverage (51)
  • Software (29)
  • Restaurants (20)
  • Wine And Spirits (16)
  • Food Processing (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (114)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Israel (4)
  • New Zealand (1)
  • Ireland (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
22M
Group Appearance index
0.40
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
The Desire Company 29 May 2024 E-Commerce, Internet, Social Media, Internet of Things, Shopping Early Stage Venture United States, Illinois, Chicago
Sustainable Beverage Technologies 23 Dec 2022 Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Brewing Late Stage Venture 7M United States, Colorado, Denver

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