Duke Angel Network

Type

Venture Capital

Location

Durham, United States

Total investments

42

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

4.67

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSRoboticsMedical DeviceMedical

Summary

Duke Angel Network is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2015. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Durham. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Duke Angel Network, startups are often financed by Techstars, SOSV, Jean Hammond. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Triangle Angel Partners, Idan Koren, Carolina Angel Network. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Triangle Venture Alliance, Primary Venture Partners, North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

The fund was created by John Glushik.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Finance, Manufacturing. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Baebies, Fathom AI, InnAVasc Medical

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Duke Angel Network works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/Enterprise
Geo focus
United States
Check size
500K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
42
Lead investments
3
Exits
3
Rounds per year
4.67
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (9)
  • SaaS (9)
  • Health Care (9)
  • Medical Device (8)
  • Medical (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (42)
Peak activity year
2015

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
25M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
410 Medical 31 Mar 2017 Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Early Stage Venture 3M United States, North Carolina, Durham
DreamVu 01 Nov 2018 Software, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, Hardware, Sensor Seed United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
inSomaBio 01 Jan 2022 Biotechnology, Life Science, Biopharma Seed 1M United States, North Carolina, Durham

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