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Forefront Venture Partners

Founders Barbara Corcoran Philip Nadel

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Total investments 50
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 5.00
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 4
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Retail
Summary

In 2014 was created Forefront Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boca Raton.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Transportation, Home Decor. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Social Rewards, Perch, Educents For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The current fund was established by Barbara Corcoran, Philip Nadel. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Forefront Venture Partners, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Wefunder, Wasabi Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Shashank V Singh, Marc Bell Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Corigin Ventures, The Visuality Corporation, Sunmeet Jolly.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Forefront Venture Partners works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Forefront Venture Partners is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Total investments 50
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 5.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fuel Me

Cloud Management
Fuel
Oil and Gas
Trading Platform
$18M01 Aug 2023 Elmhurst, Illinois, United States

NameCoach

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

Circuit

Apps
CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Information Technology
Marketing
Outdoor Advertising
Public Transportation
Ride Sharing
SaaS
Smart Cities
Software
Transportation
$11M07 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

EvaBot

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Gift
Information Technology
Virtual Assistant
$8M28 Jul 2022 California, United States

FileInvite

Apps
Internet
Software
$10M06 Jul 2022 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Kwant.ai

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Construction
Internet of Things
Mobile
Predictive Analytics
$3M29 Mar 2022 New York, New York, United States

PTO Exchange

Employee Benefits
$5M03 Mar 2022 Washington, United States

Lawmatics

CRM
Legal
Software
$10M15 Dec 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Double

$8M26 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States
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