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Garland Capital Group

Founders Gary Holdren

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.70
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Real Time
  • Finance
  • Apps
Summary

In 2012 was created Garland Capital Group, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.

The current fund was established by Gary Holdren. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SwervePay, Coolfire, Dose (Formerly Spartz).

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Garland Capital Group, startups are often financed by Chicago Ventures, Lakewest Venture Partners, Jumpstart Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lakewest Venture Partners, Hyde Park Venture Partners, GGV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IrishAngels, GGV Capital, FJ Labs.

Comparing to the other companies, this Garland Capital Group performs on 0 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TurboAppeal

Finance
Property Management
$4M04 Oct 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

SwervePay

Business/Productivity Software
Financial Software
Health Care
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Payments
Real Time
$10M09 Feb 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$22M24 Nov 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$11M13 Nov 2014 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Coolfire

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Real Time
SaaS
Software
$3M27 Oct 2014 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Dose

Content
Digital Media
Internet
$8M30 Oct 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

SimpleRelevance

E-Commerce
Email
Email Marketing
Finance
Machine Learning
Personalization
Software
$750K23 May 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.70
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TurboAppeal

Finance
Property Management
$4M04 Oct 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

SwervePay

Business/Productivity Software
Financial Software
Health Care
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Payments
Real Time
$10M09 Feb 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$22M24 Nov 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$11M13 Nov 2014 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Coolfire

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Real Time
SaaS
Software
$3M27 Oct 2014 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Dose

Content
Digital Media
Internet
$8M30 Oct 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

SimpleRelevance

E-Commerce
Email
Email Marketing
Finance
Machine Learning
Personalization
Software
$750K23 May 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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