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Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

Founders Rudolph P. Lamone

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Total investments 120
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$909K
Portfolio companies 76
Rounds per year 3.33
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 13
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TargetDocs

Communications Infrastructure
Compliance
Construction
Document Management
SaaS
$2M19 Aug 2022 Maryland, United States

TargetDocs

Communications Infrastructure
Compliance
Construction
Document Management
SaaS
$900K19 Apr 2021 Maryland, United States

Pathotrak

Biotechnology
Food Delivery
$1M18 May 2020 Maryland, United States

Student Opportunity Center

Education
$850K20 Dec 2019 Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$3M24 Apr 2017 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Pype

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$700K11 Apr 2017 Virginia, United States

MisFit Juicery

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Fruit
27 Jan 2017 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Gel-E

Health Care
Life Science
Medical
01 Nov 2016 Maryland, United States

Hatch Apps

Enterprise Applications
Mobile Apps
Software
Software Engineering
Web Apps
$475K01 Oct 2016 District of Columbia, United States

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Total investments 120
Average round size 909K
Rounds per year 3.33
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.52

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TargetDocs

Communications Infrastructure
Compliance
Construction
Document Management
SaaS
$2M19 Aug 2022 Maryland, United States

TargetDocs

Communications Infrastructure
Compliance
Construction
Document Management
SaaS
$900K19 Apr 2021 Maryland, United States

Pathotrak

Biotechnology
Food Delivery
$1M18 May 2020 Maryland, United States

Student Opportunity Center

Education
$850K20 Dec 2019 Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$3M24 Apr 2017 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Pype

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$700K11 Apr 2017 Virginia, United States

MisFit Juicery

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Fruit
27 Jan 2017 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Gel-E

Health Care
Life Science
Medical
01 Nov 2016 Maryland, United States

Hatch Apps

Enterprise Applications
Mobile Apps
Software
Software Engineering
Web Apps
$475K01 Oct 2016 District of Columbia, United States
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