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Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)

Founders Isaac Jr. Olowolafe

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 3.33
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.03
Exits 3
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile Apps
  • Retail
Summary

Dream Maker Ventures (DMV) is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Toronto.

The high activity for fund was in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Dream Maker Ventures (DMV) performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Dream Maker Ventures (DMV), startups are often financed by Brightspark Ventures, Bearing Capital, Social Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Whitecap Venture Partners, Real Ventures, Micheal Hyatt. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Micheal Hyatt, Groupe Roski, Whitecap Venture Partners.

This organization was formed by Isaac Jr. Olowolafe. The overall number of key employees were 2.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Hubba, AdHawk Microsystems. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as B2B, E-Commerce. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Trust & Will

FinTech
Internet
Legal
$6M17 Dec 2019 San Diego, California, United States

Second Closet

Commercial
Customer Service
Transportation
Warehousing
$13M13 Dec 2019 Ontario

StyleRow

Architecture
E-Commerce
Furniture
Interior Design
$4M01 Jun 2019 California, United States

Second Closet

22 Feb 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Monica+Andy

Children
Fashion
Organic
Wearables
$6M17 Dec 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

The Flex Company

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Internet Retail
Personal Products
Sex Tech
$3M16 Oct 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Live Tinted

Fashion
Retail
11 Sep 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Influicity

Celebrity
Enterprise Software
Social Media
07 Aug 2018 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Food and Beverage
Organic
Tea
$1M26 Jun 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

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Total investments 30
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 3.33
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.03
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Trust & Will

FinTech
Internet
Legal
$6M17 Dec 2019 San Diego, California, United States

Second Closet

Commercial
Customer Service
Transportation
Warehousing
$13M13 Dec 2019 Ontario

StyleRow

Architecture
E-Commerce
Furniture
Interior Design
$4M01 Jun 2019 California, United States

Second Closet

22 Feb 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Monica+Andy

Children
Fashion
Organic
Wearables
$6M17 Dec 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

The Flex Company

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Internet Retail
Personal Products
Sex Tech
$3M16 Oct 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Live Tinted

Fashion
Retail
11 Sep 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Influicity

Celebrity
Enterprise Software
Social Media
07 Aug 2018 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Food and Beverage
Organic
Tea
$1M26 Jun 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States
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