Cove Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Irvine, United States

Total investments

39

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

4.33

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.26

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSMedical DeviceMedical

Summary

Cove Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2018. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Irvine. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Cove Fund, startups are often financed by EvoNexus, Frost Data Capital, Tech Coast Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tech Coast Angels, Serra Ventures, Mark IV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tech Coast Angels, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Grey Sky Venture Partners.

This organization was formed by Fred Selby, Hans Imhof, Howard Mirowitz, John Kensey, Mike Benvenuti, Paul Voois. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 53 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Gaming. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Capillary Biomedical, VYRL, OnSite Waste Technologies.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States, Southern California
Check size
250K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 12000000
Fund raised date
2018-02-15

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
9
Rounds per year
4.33
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Health Care (11)
  • SaaS (7)
  • Medical Device (7)
  • Analytics (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (39)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.77

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Gengirl Media 11 Jan 2016 Digital Media, Toys Seed 1M United States, California, Irvine
Hub Home Box 25 Nov 2021 E-Commerce, Online Portals, Subscription Service Seed 178K São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Occuspace 24 Aug 2023 Software, Information Technology, Smart Building, Commercial Real Estate, Facility Management, Facilities Support Services Seed 3M United States, California, Westlake Village

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