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Desert Angels

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Total investments 35
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 1.52
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 6
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Aerospace
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Delta Development

Industrial
Manufacturing
Medical Device
25 Sep 2023 Tucson, Arizona, United States

MessageDesk

SaaS
SMS
Software
Telecommunications
$1M24 Mar 2023 Reno, Nevada, United States

Qwick

Apps
Food and Beverage
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$40M01 Nov 2022 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Botco.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
05 Jun 2020 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

StimAire

Health Care
Medical Device
$2M18 Nov 2019 Tucson, Arizona, United States

Aural Analytics

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
Machine Learning
mHealth
Mobile Devices
$4M05 Sep 2019 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Virtuous Software

Charity
Financial Services
Software
$4M26 Apr 2019 Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Qwick

Apps
Food and Beverage
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$3M20 Mar 2019 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

ZelosDx

Biotechnology
$200K11 Dec 2018 -

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Total investments 35
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.52
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Delta Development

Industrial
Manufacturing
Medical Device
25 Sep 2023 Tucson, Arizona, United States

MessageDesk

SaaS
SMS
Software
Telecommunications
$1M24 Mar 2023 Reno, Nevada, United States

Qwick

Apps
Food and Beverage
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$40M01 Nov 2022 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Botco.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
05 Jun 2020 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

StimAire

Health Care
Medical Device
$2M18 Nov 2019 Tucson, Arizona, United States

Aural Analytics

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
Machine Learning
mHealth
Mobile Devices
$4M05 Sep 2019 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Virtuous Software

Charity
Financial Services
Software
$4M26 Apr 2019 Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Qwick

Apps
Food and Beverage
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$3M20 Mar 2019 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

ZelosDx

Biotechnology
$200K11 Dec 2018 -
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