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Firebrand Ventures

Founders John Fein

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Total investments 41
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 32
Rounds per year 5.12
Lead investments 1
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • FinTech
  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Accounting
Summary

Firebrand Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Kansas City. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Firebrand Ventures, startups are often financed by Right Side Capital Management, Village Ventures, Union Square Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars, Blue Note Ventures, Flyover Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Canaan Partners, Broadhaven Capital Partners, Tom Noonan.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Restaurants. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Dwolla, ScaleFactor, 8base.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

This Firebrand Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Firebrand Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mermaid Char

$7M20 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Mermaid Chart

SaaS
Software
$7M20 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

HData

Business Intelligence
Information Services
Management Consulting
$10M04 Mar 2024 Joliet, Illinois, United States

Handraise

Customer Service
Software
Web Development
$6M12 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

AaDya Security

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
Small and Medium Businesses
$5M26 Apr 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Edlink

Developer APIs
EdTech
Software
$2M13 May 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Realto

Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$4M05 May 2022 Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Crafty

Event Management
Events
Food and Beverage
Human Resources
Information Technology
$10M26 Apr 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Nivati

Employee Benefits
Health Care
Human Resources
Personal Health
Software
Wellness
$4M30 Mar 2022 South Jordan, Utah, United States
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Dwolla Raises $21M in Funding

– Dwolla is a Des Moines, Iowa-based modern payments platform provider.
– Company raised $21m in funding.
– The round was led by Foundry Group with participation from Park West Asset Management LLC, Union Square Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners, Firebrand Ventures and Next Level Ventures, and Jeremy Andrus, CEO of Traeger.
– The new investment will be used to conduct growth initiatives with international payments, expansive partner relationships through a partner API and further accelerate its product roadmap focused on a real-time payments experience.

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Total investments 41
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 5.12
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mermaid Char

$7M20 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Mermaid Chart

SaaS
Software
$7M20 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

HData

Business Intelligence
Information Services
Management Consulting
$10M04 Mar 2024 Joliet, Illinois, United States

Handraise

Customer Service
Software
Web Development
$6M12 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

AaDya Security

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
Small and Medium Businesses
$5M26 Apr 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Edlink

Developer APIs
EdTech
Software
$2M13 May 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Realto

Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$4M05 May 2022 Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Crafty

Event Management
Events
Food and Beverage
Human Resources
Information Technology
$10M26 Apr 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Nivati

Employee Benefits
Health Care
Human Resources
Personal Health
Software
Wellness
$4M30 Mar 2022 South Jordan, Utah, United States
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