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Dynamo

Founders Allan Davis Barry Large Santosh Sankar Ted Alling

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Total investments 80
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 10.00
Lead investments 11
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Logistics
  • SaaS
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Transportation
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ionobell

Energy Storage
Manufacturing
$3M26 Mar 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Celadyne Technologies

Chemical
Energy Storage
Industrial
$4M15 Feb 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Guided Energy

$5M07 Feb 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

PaintJet

Software
$10M20 Dec 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Vector.ai

Financial Services
FinTech
Logistics
$30M11 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Improvin'

Internet
Publishing
$4M09 May 2023 Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden

Rouvia

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$3M30 Nov 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

PaintJet

Software
$3M27 Oct 2022 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

LogRock Inc.

Commercial Insurance
Compliance
Software
$2M18 Oct 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States
News
Manna Raises $25M in Series A Funding

– Manna, a Dublin, Ireland-based food delivery startup which uses drones, raised $25M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Draper Esprit.
Team Europe, DST Global and existing investors Dynamo Ventures, Atlantic Bridge and Elkstone also participated in the round.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach, continue to scale its fleet of drones and to begin supporting critical medical deliveries.

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Total investments 80
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 10.00
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ionobell

Energy Storage
Manufacturing
$3M26 Mar 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Celadyne Technologies

Chemical
Energy Storage
Industrial
$4M15 Feb 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Guided Energy

$5M07 Feb 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

PaintJet

Software
$10M20 Dec 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Vector.ai

Financial Services
FinTech
Logistics
$30M11 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Improvin'

Internet
Publishing
$4M09 May 2023 Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden

Rouvia

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$3M30 Nov 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

PaintJet

Software
$3M27 Oct 2022 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

LogRock Inc.

Commercial Insurance
Compliance
Software
$2M18 Oct 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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