Desert Angels

Total investments

35

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

27

Rounds per year

1.52

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareMobileHealth CareSaaSEducationAerospaceManufacturingMedical DeviceSpace Travel

Summary

Desert Angels appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Tucson.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Desert Angels, startups are often financed by Shaun Coleman, National Science Foundation, Maine Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Arizona Tech Investors, UAVenture Capital, Tech Coast Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Space Angels, Shasta Ventures, Sequoia Capital.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CampusLogic, Vector Launch, ClearVoice. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biopharma, Marketing Automation.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. When the investment is from Desert Angels the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Desert Angels works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
35
Lead investments
1
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.52
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (7)
  • SaaS (6)
  • Software (6)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Aerospace (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (31)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.82

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Latest deals

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Annuity.com 15 May 2024 Seed 15M
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