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Downey Ventures

Founders Juan Bruce Steve Levin

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 2.00
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Collaboration
  • Jewelry
  • Retail
Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Beverly Hills.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Downey Ventures performs on 0 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MasterClass, MediaSpike, Epoxy. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Subscription Service, Media and Entertainment. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Downey Ventures, startups are often financed by Advancit Capital, Upfront Ventures, Greycroft. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Upfront Ventures, Advancit Capital, Yan-David Erlich. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yan-David Erlich, Novel TMT Ventures, New Enterprise Associates.

The fund was created by Juan Bruce.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Art
Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Digital Media
E-Commerce
Education
Events
Retail
Service Industry
$200K26 Jan 2020 New York, New York, United States

Pietra

Collaboration
E-Commerce
Internet
Jewelry
27 Mar 2019 New York, New York, United States

Pietra

Collaboration
E-Commerce
Internet
Jewelry
$5M01 Jan 2019 New York, New York, United States

Loot Crate

E-Commerce
Gaming
Media and Entertainment
Retail
Sports
Subscription Service
$18M02 Jun 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

MasterClass

EdTech
Education
Training
$15M23 Feb 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Epoxy

Digital Media
Social Media
Software
Video
$6M24 Jun 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Maker Studios

Media and Entertainment
Music
Video
Video Streaming
$36M22 Dec 2012 California, United States

MediaSpike

Advertising
Android
Internet
iOS
Mobile
Software
10 Jul 2012 Mountain View, California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 2.00
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Art
Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Digital Media
E-Commerce
Education
Events
Retail
Service Industry
$200K26 Jan 2020 New York, New York, United States

Pietra

Collaboration
E-Commerce
Internet
Jewelry
27 Mar 2019 New York, New York, United States

Pietra

Collaboration
E-Commerce
Internet
Jewelry
$5M01 Jan 2019 New York, New York, United States

Loot Crate

E-Commerce
Gaming
Media and Entertainment
Retail
Sports
Subscription Service
$18M02 Jun 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

MasterClass

EdTech
Education
Training
$15M23 Feb 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Epoxy

Digital Media
Social Media
Software
Video
$6M24 Jun 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Maker Studios

Media and Entertainment
Music
Video
Video Streaming
$36M22 Dec 2012 California, United States

MediaSpike

Advertising
Android
Internet
iOS
Mobile
Software
10 Jul 2012 Mountain View, California, United States
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