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FTW Ventures

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 1.50
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Food Processing
  • Nutrition
  • Food and Beverage
  • Life Science
Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Geltor. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Enterprise Software.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the FTW Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars Boston Accelerator, Techstars, SOSV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Valley Oak Investments, Stray Dog Capital, Springtide Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Valley Oak Investments, Starlight Ventures, SOSV.

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

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nfinite Nanotech

Nanotechnology
$7M14 May 2024 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Izote Biosciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
$2M01 Feb 2024 Berkeley, California, United States

Yali Biosciences

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$3M22 Feb 2022 South San Francisco, California, United States

Phytoform Labs

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
$5M16 Dec 2021 Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Plantible Foods

Food Processing
Nutrition
$21M02 Sep 2021 California, United States

Plantible Foods

Food Processing
Nutrition
$4M30 Apr 2020 California, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$2M07 Jan 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Spoiler Alert

B2B
E-Commerce Platforms
Enterprise Software
Food and Beverage
Recycling
SaaS
Software
Supply Chain Management
Sustainability
Waste Management
$2M16 Nov 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Geltor

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Health Care
$4M01 Feb 2016 California, United States
News
Plantible Raises $21.5M in Series A Funding

– Plantible is a San Diego CA-based food-tech/biotech company.
– Series A funding round raised $21.5m.
– The round was led by Astanor Ventures with participation from Piva Capital, CJ CheilJedang, Good Friends, Bradley Horowitz (SVP of Product at Google), Trevor Martin (Founder of Mammoth Biosciences) and Chris Bryson (Founder of Unata), Vectr Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, eighteen94 capital (Kellogg Company’s venture capital fund), FTW Ventures and Unshackled Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to build its first commercial facility to launch and commercialize its product in 2022.

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Total investments 9
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 1.50
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.11
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nfinite Nanotech

Nanotechnology
$7M14 May 2024 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Izote Biosciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
$2M01 Feb 2024 Berkeley, California, United States

Yali Biosciences

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$3M22 Feb 2022 South San Francisco, California, United States

Phytoform Labs

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
$5M16 Dec 2021 Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Plantible Foods

Food Processing
Nutrition
$21M02 Sep 2021 California, United States

Plantible Foods

Food Processing
Nutrition
$4M30 Apr 2020 California, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$2M07 Jan 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Spoiler Alert

B2B
E-Commerce Platforms
Enterprise Software
Food and Beverage
Recycling
SaaS
Software
Supply Chain Management
Sustainability
Waste Management
$2M16 Nov 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Geltor

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Health Care
$4M01 Feb 2016 California, United States
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