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Engage Ventures

Founders Blake Patton

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 41
Rounds per year 7.86
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 1
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Logistics
Summary

In 2017 was created Engage Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Atlanta. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Internet. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Fast Radius, Verusen, Intrinio Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

This Engage Ventures works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Engage Ventures the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.

The fund was created by Blake Patton, Thiago Olson. The overall number of key employees were 9.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Engage Ventures, startups are often financed by Florida Funders, Ark Applications, UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rise of the Rest, Atlanta Seed Company, Florida Funders. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Story Ventures, Rise of the Rest, Pritzker Group Venture Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Optera

CleanTech
Environmental Consulting
Sustainability
$12M11 Sep 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Call Simulator

Artificial Intelligence
Call Center
Software
$250K23 Jan 2023 Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Qualytics

$2M22 Dec 2022 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

NameCoach

Education
Higher Education
Information Technology
Internet
Software
Universities
$8M17 Nov 2022 California, United States

Terzo Technologies

SaaS
$12M16 Nov 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Fluree

Apps
Blockchain
Information Technology
$2M30 Sep 2022 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Tribute

Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$2M01 Aug 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

WorkStep

Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
$25M13 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Sounding Board

E-Learning
Human Resources
Information Technology
Software
Training
$30M01 Dec 2021 California, United States
News
Help Lightning Adds $3M To Series A Round

– Help Lightning, a remote visual assistance software provider, has added $3m in growth equity to its Series A funding.
– The additional capital represents continued investment in remote visual support and opportunity for the technologies that support it, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
– The additional financing comes less than a year after Help Lightning announced its $8m Series A led by return investor Resolve.
– Help Lightning added two new strategic investors in this latest round: Mumbai, India-based engineering & infrastructure conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Atlanta, Georgia-based Engage.

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Total investments 55
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 7.86
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Optera

CleanTech
Environmental Consulting
Sustainability
$12M11 Sep 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Call Simulator

Artificial Intelligence
Call Center
Software
$250K23 Jan 2023 Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Qualytics

$2M22 Dec 2022 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

NameCoach

Education
Higher Education
Information Technology
Internet
Software
Universities
$8M17 Nov 2022 California, United States

Terzo Technologies

SaaS
$12M16 Nov 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Fluree

Apps
Blockchain
Information Technology
$2M30 Sep 2022 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Tribute

Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$2M01 Aug 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

WorkStep

Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
$25M13 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Sounding Board

E-Learning
Human Resources
Information Technology
Software
Training
$30M01 Dec 2021 California, United States
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