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Enlightenment Capital

Founders Devin Talbott

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 2.17
Lead investments 10
Exits 6
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Consulting
  • Information Services
  • Computer
Summary

Enlightenment Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Chevy Chase. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This organization was formed by Devin Talbott.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline 0glass, Alauda, Aurora Flight Sciences Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cloud Infrastructure, Software. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Enlightenment Capital, startups are often financed by Gaorong Capital, CBC Capital, Westbury Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ming capital, Jun Capital, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yungpark Lingzhong Fund, Qingyan New Generation Artificial Intelligence Fund, District-10 VRAR Incubator Fund.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Enlightenment Capital works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RRAI

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Information Technology
$75M10 Sep 2024 Clarksburg, Maryland, United States

OROS Labs

$22M03 Apr 2024 Portland, Oregon, United States

Robotic Research

Consulting
Robotics
Telecommunications
$228M09 Dec 2021 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

OROS

Fashion
Lifestyle
Wearables
$14M24 Jun 2021 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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OROS Closes $14.5M Series A Funding Round

– Oros, a team of experimenters, visionaries and craftspeople united by a shared vision of a future forged from relentless curiosity and innovation, announced $14.5m in a Series A funding.
– The round led by Elizabeth Street Ventures and Enlightenment Capital.
– Also participating in the financing were leading visionary and entrepreneur Thomas Tull, the Chairman of Snap Inc. Michael Lynton, and Brandon Shainfeld, among others.
– The company’s emerging technology will usher in a new era for the $13 billion outerwear industry.

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Total investments 26
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 2.17
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 10
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.27

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RRAI

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Information Technology
$75M10 Sep 2024 Clarksburg, Maryland, United States

OROS Labs

$22M03 Apr 2024 Portland, Oregon, United States

Robotic Research

Consulting
Robotics
Telecommunications
$228M09 Dec 2021 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

OROS

Fashion
Lifestyle
Wearables
$14M24 Jun 2021 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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