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Drummond Road Capital

Founders Morris Wheeler

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 36
Rounds per year 1.88
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 11
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
  • Analytics
  • Big Data
Summary

In 1999 was created Drummond Road Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Cleveland.

The current fund was established by Morris Wheeler. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The typical startup value when the investment from Drummond Road Capital is 10-50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Drummond Road Capital works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TRED, Cuseum, Disruption Corporation. 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 some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Drummond Road Capital, startups are often financed by Techstars, MergeLane, Amplify.LA. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars Ventures, Techstars, Morris Wheeler. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Amplify.LA, Y Combinator, Pelion Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FloatMe

Education
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
$3M03 Dec 2020 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Mapistry

Industrial
Pollution Control
SaaS
Water
$1M09 Nov 2020 Berkeley, California, United States

Axuall

Health Care
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
$3M25 Sep 2019 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Hammerhead

CleanTech
Consumer Electronics
Logistics
Navigation
Public Transportation
Robotics
$4M07 Mar 2019 New York, United States

Mapistry

Industrial
Pollution Control
SaaS
Water
$2M13 May 2018 Berkeley, California, United States

Divergent 3D

3D Printing
Automotive
Manufacturing
27 Mar 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Divergent 3D

3D Printing
Automotive
Manufacturing
$78M21 Nov 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

BallotReady

Impact Investing
Mobile
$780K31 Jan 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

CANDL

Mobile
Travel
Wireless
$615K24 Jan 2017 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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Total investments 45
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 1.88
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FloatMe

Education
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
$3M03 Dec 2020 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Mapistry

Industrial
Pollution Control
SaaS
Water
$1M09 Nov 2020 Berkeley, California, United States

Axuall

Health Care
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
$3M25 Sep 2019 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Hammerhead

CleanTech
Consumer Electronics
Logistics
Navigation
Public Transportation
Robotics
$4M07 Mar 2019 New York, United States

Mapistry

Industrial
Pollution Control
SaaS
Water
$2M13 May 2018 Berkeley, California, United States

Divergent 3D

3D Printing
Automotive
Manufacturing
27 Mar 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Divergent 3D

3D Printing
Automotive
Manufacturing
$78M21 Nov 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

BallotReady

Impact Investing
Mobile
$780K31 Jan 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

CANDL

Mobile
Travel
Wireless
$615K24 Jan 2017 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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