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Darling Ventures

Founders Daniel Darling

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 3.10
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
Summary

Darling Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

This organization was formed by Daniel Darling. The overall number of key employees were 2.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy, Real Time. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Briq, Omni, Averon

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Darling Ventures, startups are often financed by Social Starts, PivotNorth Capital, March Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are PivotNorth Capital, Yokogawa Electric Corp., Robert Bosch Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Citrix Startup Accelerator, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, PivotNorth Capital.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Darling Ventures works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Prescient

Marketing
Predictive Analytics
Simulation
Software
$4M15 Mar 2023 Miami, Florida, United States

Geminus.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Information Technology
$7M27 Jun 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

CryptoLeague

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
FinTech
$2M02 Mar 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

Kintsugi

Apps
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Personal Health
Software
$20M28 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

CatalyzeX

Artificial Intelligence
Browser Extensions
Developer Tools
Machine Learning
Productivity Tools
$1M22 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Kintsugi

Apps
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Personal Health
Software
$8M26 Aug 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

Prescient

Marketing
Predictive Analytics
Simulation
Software
$2M14 Jul 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

Unmeeting

Collaboration
Enterprise Applications
Internet
SaaS
Software
Video Conferencing
Virtual Workforce
$750K22 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Beam Health

Health Care
$1M20 Apr 2021 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 3.10
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Prescient

Marketing
Predictive Analytics
Simulation
Software
$4M15 Mar 2023 Miami, Florida, United States

Geminus.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Information Technology
$7M27 Jun 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

CryptoLeague

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
FinTech
$2M02 Mar 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

Kintsugi

Apps
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Personal Health
Software
$20M28 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

CatalyzeX

Artificial Intelligence
Browser Extensions
Developer Tools
Machine Learning
Productivity Tools
$1M22 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Kintsugi

Apps
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Personal Health
Software
$8M26 Aug 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

Prescient

Marketing
Predictive Analytics
Simulation
Software
$2M14 Jul 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

Unmeeting

Collaboration
Enterprise Applications
Internet
SaaS
Software
Video Conferencing
Virtual Workforce
$750K22 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Beam Health

Health Care
$1M20 Apr 2021 New York, New York, United States
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