Engel Ventures

Total investments

12

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

1.71

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceFood ProcessingMachine LearningSaaSAdvanced Materials

Summary

Engel Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Santa Barbara.

The fund was created by Dan Engel. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Engel Ventures, startups are often financed by Blu Venture Investors, New Dominion Angels, John Greathouse. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Jason Spievak, Upfront Ventures, Tom West. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upfront Ventures, SaaS Ventures, IrishAngels.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advanced Materials, SaaS. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Apeel Sciences, SafeGraph, Blue Triangle The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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.

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Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
1.71
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Internet (3)
  • Software (3)
  • Artificial Intelligence (2)
  • Machine Learning (2)
  • Analytics (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
68M
Group Appearance index
0.42
Avg. company exit year
13
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bark Technologies 01 Mar 2020 Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Children, Parenting Early Stage Venture 26M United States, Atlanta, Georgia

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