Detroit Venture Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Detroit, United States

Total investments

104

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

60

Rounds per year

7.43

Lead investments

20

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSAppsEnterprise SoftwareSocial Media

Summary

Detroit Venture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Detroit. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Detroit Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Hyde Park Venture Partners, NCT Ventures, Village Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ludlow Ventures, NCT Ventures, Stage 1 Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NCT Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, BIP Capital.

This Detroit Venture Partners works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Detroit Venture Partners is 5-10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 46 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The high activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

This organization was formed by Brian Hermelin, Dan Gilbert. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline StockX, Dwolla, Miso Media Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 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 exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Digital Media, Mobile.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistEcommerceGaming/EsportsLogisticsAI/Big Data Show 5 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States, Michigan, Detroit

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
104
Lead investments
20
Exits
8
Rounds per year
7.43
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (19)
  • Software (17)
  • Enterprise Software (16)
  • Financial Services (11)
  • Social Media (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (102)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2011
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
89M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Onboard (Onboard.io) 16 Feb 2021 Software, SaaS Seed 1M United States, Michigan
Wheel the World 09 Mar 2023 E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism, Adventure Travel Early Stage Venture 6M United States, California, Berkeley

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