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CNF Investments, LLC

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Total investments 46
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 31
Rounds per year 1.77
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 12
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Mobile
  • Medical
  • Biotechnology
Summary

CNF Investments, LLC is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Bethesda.

The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this CNF Investments, LLC performs on 2 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from CNF Investments, LLC is 50-100 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kareo, Echo360, Verax Biomedical.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the CNF Investments, LLC, startups are often financed by Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Vivo Capital, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RedShift Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Thayer Ventures, RedShift Ventures.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ceros

Advertising
Business/Productivity Software
Content Creators
Content Marketing
Graphic Design
Multimedia and Design Software
Software
$14M28 Feb 2019 New York, New York, United States

Ceros

Advertising
Business/Productivity Software
Content Creators
Content Marketing
Graphic Design
Multimedia and Design Software
Software
$11M02 Aug 2016 New York, New York, United States

Blitsy

Art
E-Commerce
Retail
Video
$6M25 Jan 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

CircleBack

Android
Apps
Contact Management
iOS
Mobile
$12M15 Jul 2015 Arlington, Virginia, United States

Echo360

EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Information Technology
$18M12 Nov 2014 Virginia, United States

AnyPresence

Apps
Cloud Computing
Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Mobile
PaaS
SaaS
$6M30 Sep 2014 Virginia, United States

SurfWatch Labs

Analytics
Big Data
Cyber Security
Risk Management
Social Media
$3M23 Apr 2014 Virginia, United States

Closely

Apps
Business Intelligence
Local
Location Based Services
Mobile
Search Engine
Small and Medium Businesses
Social Media
Software
$3M08 Apr 2014 Denver, Colorado, United States

Quad Learning

Communities
Education
Management Information Systems
Recruiting
$10M07 Apr 2014 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Total investments 46
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 1.77
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ceros

Advertising
Business/Productivity Software
Content Creators
Content Marketing
Graphic Design
Multimedia and Design Software
Software
$14M28 Feb 2019 New York, New York, United States

Ceros

Advertising
Business/Productivity Software
Content Creators
Content Marketing
Graphic Design
Multimedia and Design Software
Software
$11M02 Aug 2016 New York, New York, United States

Blitsy

Art
E-Commerce
Retail
Video
$6M25 Jan 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

CircleBack

Android
Apps
Contact Management
iOS
Mobile
$12M15 Jul 2015 Arlington, Virginia, United States

Echo360

EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Information Technology
$18M12 Nov 2014 Virginia, United States

AnyPresence

Apps
Cloud Computing
Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Mobile
PaaS
SaaS
$6M30 Sep 2014 Virginia, United States

SurfWatch Labs

Analytics
Big Data
Cyber Security
Risk Management
Social Media
$3M23 Apr 2014 Virginia, United States

Closely

Apps
Business Intelligence
Local
Location Based Services
Mobile
Search Engine
Small and Medium Businesses
Social Media
Software
$3M08 Apr 2014 Denver, Colorado, United States

Quad Learning

Communities
Education
Management Information Systems
Recruiting
$10M07 Apr 2014 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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