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Cowles Company

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.10
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 1
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Publishing
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Sports
Summary

In 1890 was created Cowles Company, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Spokane.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CloudEngage, APANA, HyperSciences. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Oil and Gas, Energy. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Cowles Company, startups are often financed by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Urban Innovation Fund, Mister Car Wash. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Washington Research Foundation., Urban Innovation Fund, Kurita Water Industries. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SeedInvest, Venkat Srinivasan, Urban Innovation Fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Quintar

Digital Entertainment
Fantasy Sports
$8M08 Apr 2024 Santa Clara, California, United States

Treasury4

Analytics
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$20M12 Sep 2023 Spokane, Washington, United States

Quintar

Digital Entertainment
Fantasy Sports
09 Jun 2021 Santa Clara, California, United States

Gestalt Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$2M15 Apr 2021 Spokane, Washington, United States

Spiceology, Inc.

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Organic Food
$4M23 Sep 2020 Spokane, Washington, United States

APANA

Information Services
Information Technology
Water
$11M09 Apr 2019 Bellingham, Washington, United States

SBLive Sports

Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
News
Publishing
Software
Sports
$4M01 Apr 2019 Spokane, Washington, United States

AgTech
Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Medical
$12M01 Sep 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

HyperSciences

Aerospace
Clean Energy
Drones
Energy
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Mineral
Mining Technology
Oil and Gas
$690K24 Feb 2017 Austin, Texas, United States

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Total investments 13
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.10
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Quintar

Digital Entertainment
Fantasy Sports
$8M08 Apr 2024 Santa Clara, California, United States

Treasury4

Analytics
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$20M12 Sep 2023 Spokane, Washington, United States

Quintar

Digital Entertainment
Fantasy Sports
09 Jun 2021 Santa Clara, California, United States

Gestalt Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$2M15 Apr 2021 Spokane, Washington, United States

Spiceology, Inc.

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Organic Food
$4M23 Sep 2020 Spokane, Washington, United States

APANA

Information Services
Information Technology
Water
$11M09 Apr 2019 Bellingham, Washington, United States

SBLive Sports

Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
News
Publishing
Software
Sports
$4M01 Apr 2019 Spokane, Washington, United States

AgTech
Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Medical
$12M01 Sep 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

HyperSciences

Aerospace
Clean Energy
Drones
Energy
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Mineral
Mining Technology
Oil and Gas
$690K24 Feb 2017 Austin, Texas, United States
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