Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
Corporate investor
Active
College Park, United States
120
909K
76
3.33
5
0.36
13
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship is the famous VC, which was founded in 1986. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the College Park.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, startups are often financed by CIT GAP Funds, Stardust Venture Partners, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Stardust Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Militello Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Militello Capital, Core Capital Partners, Fortify Ventures.
The fund was created by Rudolph P. Lamone. The overall number of key employees were 1.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Distil Networks, ZeroFOX, InGo.me. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Security, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2020. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Opposing the other organizations, this Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 120
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 13
- Rounds per year
- 3.33
- Follow on index
- 0.36
- Investments by industry
- Software (39)
- SaaS (24)
- Mobile (18)
- Enterprise Software (17)
- Information Technology (14) Show 133 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (118)
- Ireland (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2013
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 34M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.52
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.99
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Protos Labs | 18 Apr 2022 | Seed | |||
Social Tables | 30 Jul 2013 | Software, Event Management, Hospitality, Universities, Meeting Software | Seed | 1M | United States, District of Columbia, Washington |
TargetDocs | 19 Aug 2022 | SaaS, Document Management, Construction, Communications Infrastructure, Compliance | Seed | 2M | United States, Maryland |
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