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DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$78K
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 2.17
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Travel
  • mHealth
Summary

In 2009 was created DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in Ireland. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Dublin.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, startups are often financed by Enterprise Ireland, NDRC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ireland, Start-Up Chile, Paddy Bolger. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ireland, Act Venture Capital, Tom Kennedy.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50-100 thousands dollars. The average startup value when the investment from DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2013.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Photography, Digital Media. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight VideoElephant. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Ireland.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Way2Pay

Education
Financial Services
Language Learning
Payments
$35K10 Feb 2014 County Dublin

Ace Health Innovations

Fitness
Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
Predictive Analytics
$35K06 Dec 2013 County Dublin

Sighter

Gamification
Leisure
Mobile
Software
Tourism
Travel
$40K23 Aug 2013 Ireland, County Tipperary, Ireland

Ace Health Innovations

Fitness
Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
Predictive Analytics
$94K01 Mar 2013 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Live Mobile

Mobile
Subscription Service
Telecommunications
$35K27 Jan 2013 Ireland, County Dublin

VideoElephant

Digital Media
Publishing
Social Media
Video
$1M01 Dec 2012 Ireland, County Dublin

Picturk

Apps
Communities
Internet
Photo Sharing
Photography
Software
$35K05 Jun 2012 Ireland, County Dublin

swiftQueue

Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
$35K01 Apr 2012 Ireland, County Dublin

Zeto

Hardware
Information Technology
Product Design
Software
$35K01 Jan 2012 Ireland, Cork

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Total investments 26
Average round size 78K
Rounds per year 2.17
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.12

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Way2Pay

Education
Financial Services
Language Learning
Payments
$35K10 Feb 2014 County Dublin

Ace Health Innovations

Fitness
Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
Predictive Analytics
$35K06 Dec 2013 County Dublin

Sighter

Gamification
Leisure
Mobile
Software
Tourism
Travel
$40K23 Aug 2013 Ireland, County Tipperary, Ireland

Ace Health Innovations

Fitness
Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
Predictive Analytics
$94K01 Mar 2013 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Live Mobile

Mobile
Subscription Service
Telecommunications
$35K27 Jan 2013 Ireland, County Dublin

VideoElephant

Digital Media
Publishing
Social Media
Video
$1M01 Dec 2012 Ireland, County Dublin

Picturk

Apps
Communities
Internet
Photo Sharing
Photography
Software
$35K05 Jun 2012 Ireland, County Dublin

swiftQueue

Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
$35K01 Apr 2012 Ireland, County Dublin

Zeto

Hardware
Information Technology
Product Design
Software
$35K01 Jan 2012 Ireland, Cork
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