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Empire Angels

Founders Christina Bechhold Russ Graham Gullans

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 2.73
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Analytics
  • E-Commerce
  • Automotive
  • Software
  • Rental
Summary

Empire Angels is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Christina Bechhold Russ, Graham Gullans. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Empire Angels, startups are often financed by VentureSouq, Vaidya Capital Partners, Spark Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, NGP Capital, Max Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, NGP Capital, ff Venture Capital.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Food and Beverage, Fashion. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Imperative, Juno, Crave. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Empire Angels is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Empire Angels works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Popsy

Artificial Intelligence
Classifieds
E-Commerce
Machine Learning
Marketplace
Mobile
Mobile Apps
01 Oct 2020 New York, New York, United States

Superpedestrian

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer
Hardware
$20M20 Nov 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Mayflower Venues

Event Management
Online Portals
Wedding
$450K03 Jul 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Orionis Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
30 Apr 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Farmer Willie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer

Food and Beverage
15 Dec 2017 Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States

Enertiv

Analytics
Commercial Real Estate
Internet of Things
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
17 Apr 2017 New York, New York, United States

Zest Tea

Consumer Goods
Fitness
Food and Beverage
Tea
01 Feb 2017 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Kenzen

Analytics
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Health Care
Industrial
Internet of Things
Wearables
01 Dec 2016 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Enertiv

Analytics
Commercial Real Estate
Internet of Things
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
01 Oct 2016 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 30
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 2.73
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Popsy

Artificial Intelligence
Classifieds
E-Commerce
Machine Learning
Marketplace
Mobile
Mobile Apps
01 Oct 2020 New York, New York, United States

Superpedestrian

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer
Hardware
$20M20 Nov 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Mayflower Venues

Event Management
Online Portals
Wedding
$450K03 Jul 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Orionis Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
30 Apr 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Farmer Willie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer

Food and Beverage
15 Dec 2017 Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States

Enertiv

Analytics
Commercial Real Estate
Internet of Things
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
17 Apr 2017 New York, New York, United States

Zest Tea

Consumer Goods
Fitness
Food and Beverage
Tea
01 Feb 2017 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Kenzen

Analytics
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Health Care
Industrial
Internet of Things
Wearables
01 Dec 2016 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Enertiv

Analytics
Commercial Real Estate
Internet of Things
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
01 Oct 2016 New York, New York, United States
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