Dynamo Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chattanooga, United States

Total investments

81

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

43

Rounds per year

10.12

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsFreight ServiceSupply Chain ManagementTransportationSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaS

Summary

Dynamo is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The main department of described VC is located in the Chattanooga. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This organization was formed by Allan Davis, Barry Large, Santosh Sankar, Ted Alling.

The high activity for fund was in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Dynamo the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Dynamo works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.

The fund has no exact preference 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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Verusen, Gatik, Tenderd Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, Mobile. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Dynamo, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Toba Capital, Techstars Mobility Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ff Venture Capital, Toba Capital, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toba Capital, ff Venture Capital, Y Combinator.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
MobilityLogistics
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 38 more
Check size
250K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 43000000
Fund raised date
2021-06-24

Analytics

Total investments
81
Lead investments
11
Exits
1
Rounds per year
10.12
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Software (45)
  • Logistics (36)
  • SaaS (20)
  • Supply Chain Management (18)
  • Transportation (16)
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Investments by region
  • United States (42)
  • Brazil (2)
  • United Kingdom (10)
  • Ireland (5)
  • Mexico (10)
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Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
72M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Rouvia 30 Nov 2022 Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Transportation Seed 3M Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Solvento 06 Dec 2023 Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Finance Seed 3M

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