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Core Ventures Group

Founders Joanna Drake Earl Shinya Akamine

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 2.55
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 4
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Analytics
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
Summary

Core Ventures Group appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Santa Clara. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Consumer Electronics, Big Data. 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 needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wizeline, Vorstella, Feed.fm. 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.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Core Ventures Group works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The current fund was established by Joanna Drake Earl, Shinya Akamine. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Core Ventures Group, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, Angel Ventures, VTF Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tuesday Capital, The Perkins Fund, SV Angel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Perkins Fund, Sierra Ventures, Angel Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Friendly Apps

Apps
Software
$3M26 May 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

Concentric AI

Artificial Intelligence
Network Security
$14M11 May 2022 San Jose, California, United States

Space Runners

3D Technology
Blockchain
Consulting
Fashion
Sports
$10M07 Mar 2022 Texas, South Carolina, United States

Zigazoo

E-Learning
06 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Ockam

Cloud Computing
Cyber Security
Data Integration
Developer Platform
Enterprise
Internet of Things
Security
Software
$12M05 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

AskBrian

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Machine Learning
06 Jul 2021 Bayern, Bavaria, Germany

Compaas

Analytics
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$4M11 Aug 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Concentric AI

Artificial Intelligence
Network Security
$7M29 Jan 2020 San Jose, California, United States

Zippin

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Shopping
Software
$12M11 Dec 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 28
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 2.55
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Friendly Apps

Apps
Software
$3M26 May 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

Concentric AI

Artificial Intelligence
Network Security
$14M11 May 2022 San Jose, California, United States

Space Runners

3D Technology
Blockchain
Consulting
Fashion
Sports
$10M07 Mar 2022 Texas, South Carolina, United States

Zigazoo

E-Learning
06 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Ockam

Cloud Computing
Cyber Security
Data Integration
Developer Platform
Enterprise
Internet of Things
Security
Software
$12M05 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

AskBrian

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Machine Learning
06 Jul 2021 Bayern, Bavaria, Germany

Compaas

Analytics
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$4M11 Aug 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Concentric AI

Artificial Intelligence
Network Security
$7M29 Jan 2020 San Jose, California, United States

Zippin

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Shopping
Software
$12M11 Dec 2019 San Francisco, California, United States
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