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ECA Ventures

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$77M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.74
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Marketing
  • Content
  • Information Technology
  • Advertising
Summary

In 2003 was created ECA Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Sherman Oaks. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this ECA Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from ECA Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lyft, HouseCanary, The Bouqs Company. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Real Time, Content.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the ECA Ventures, startups are often financed by Quest Venture Partners, Michael Tedesco, Wavemaker Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Raven Ventures Australia, Paradigm Talent Agency, Michael Tedesco. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Piton Capital, Pentech Ventures, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Influential

Advertising
Content
Information Technology
Marketing
$12M14 Jun 2018 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

HouseCanary

Analytics
Big Data
Predictive Analytics
Real Estate
$33M12 Jan 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Influential

Advertising
Content
Information Technology
Marketing
$5M26 Jul 2016 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

The Bouqs Company

Delivery
E-Commerce
Retail
$12M03 Feb 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

FinTech Global Markets

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Venture Capital
01 Nov 2014 Irvine, California, United States

DarkLight, Inc.

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
Network Security
Software
$2M01 Aug 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States

Influential

Advertising
Content
Information Technology
Marketing
$3M09 Mar 2014 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

mJoose

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
01 Mar 2014 California, United States

FanDuel

$4M07 Sep 2011 -

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Total investments 14
Average round size 77M
Rounds per year 0.74
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Influential

Advertising
Content
Information Technology
Marketing
$12M14 Jun 2018 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

HouseCanary

Analytics
Big Data
Predictive Analytics
Real Estate
$33M12 Jan 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Influential

Advertising
Content
Information Technology
Marketing
$5M26 Jul 2016 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

The Bouqs Company

Delivery
E-Commerce
Retail
$12M03 Feb 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

FinTech Global Markets

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Venture Capital
01 Nov 2014 Irvine, California, United States

DarkLight, Inc.

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
Network Security
Software
$2M01 Aug 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States

Influential

Advertising
Content
Information Technology
Marketing
$3M09 Mar 2014 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

mJoose

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
01 Mar 2014 California, United States

FanDuel

$4M07 Sep 2011 -
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