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Cue Ball

Founders John Hamel

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Total investments 74
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 53
Rounds per year 4.62
Lead investments 9
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 16
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • FinTech
  • Content
Summary

Cue Ball is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by John Hamel. The overall number of key employees were 7.

The average startup value when the investment from Cue Ball is 50-100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Cue Ball performs on 10 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2018.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Apps, Internet. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 Bread, Livefyre, Scrollmotion d/b/a Ingage.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Cue Ball, startups are often financed by Greycroft, ff Venture Capital, Hillsven Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hillsven Capital, ff Venture Capital, RRE Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Greycroft, ff Venture Capital, Hillsven Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Forum

Health Care
$5M08 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Covey

Finance
Financial Services
$2M21 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States

ianacare

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$12M04 Jan 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Recycle Track Systems

Environmental Engineering
Recycling
Sustainability
Waste Management
$35M24 Jun 2021 New York, New York, United States

WaitWhat

Content
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
$12M21 Jun 2021 New York, New York, United States

Food and Beverage
Organic
Tea
$5M18 May 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Pex

Digital Entertainment
Legal
Music
Photography
Video
$57M16 Feb 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Codeverse

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Internet
Software
STEM Education
01 Oct 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Capital Markets Gateway

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$25M25 Jun 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 74
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 4.62
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 16
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Forum

Health Care
$5M08 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Covey

Finance
Financial Services
$2M21 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States

ianacare

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$12M04 Jan 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Recycle Track Systems

Environmental Engineering
Recycling
Sustainability
Waste Management
$35M24 Jun 2021 New York, New York, United States

WaitWhat

Content
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
$12M21 Jun 2021 New York, New York, United States

Food and Beverage
Organic
Tea
$5M18 May 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Pex

Digital Entertainment
Legal
Music
Photography
Video
$57M16 Feb 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Codeverse

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Internet
Software
STEM Education
01 Oct 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Capital Markets Gateway

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$25M25 Jun 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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