eLab Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Ann Arbor, United States

Total investments

32

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

2.91

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareRobotics

Summary

eLab Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Ann Arbor.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This eLab Ventures works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Clinc, Sight Machine, Aperia Technologies. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Information Technology. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the eLab Ventures, startups are often financed by Wakestream Ventures, Grand Angels, VMware. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wakestream Ventures, VMware, Upslope Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Hyde Park Venture Partners, Wakestream Ventures, Two Roads Group.

This organization was formed by Doug Neal, Robert Stefanski. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataClimate tech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Check size
Up to 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
7
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.91
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Artificial Intelligence (11)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • SaaS (7)
  • Analytics (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (32)
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
6M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
4.79

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Allwhere 25 Jul 2022 Software, Virtual World, Virtual Workforce Seed 9M United States, New York, Brooklyn
Refraction AI 01 Apr 2019 Automotive, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Seed 1M United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Voxel51 16 May 2024 Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision Early Stage Venture 30M United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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