gener8tor

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Madison, United States

Total investments

280

Average round size

330K

Portfolio companies

222

Rounds per year

23.33

Lead investments

39

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaS

Summary

gener8tor is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Madison. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Dan Armbrust, Joe Kirgues, Jon Eckhardt, Troy Vosseller.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Analytics, Internet. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SteamChain, Scanalytics, GrocerKey The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The high activity for fund was in 2013. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The average startup value when the investment from gener8tor is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. This gener8tor works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the gener8tor, startups are often financed by SeedInvest, BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, Angels on the Water. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CSA Partners LLC, BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, SeedInvest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by American Family Ventures, Wisconsin Investment Partners, State of Wisconsin Investment Board.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
280
Lead investments
39
Exits
6
Rounds per year
23.33
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (72)
  • Health Care (39)
  • SaaS (37)
  • Information Technology (31)
  • E-Commerce (24)
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Investments by region
  • United States (239)
  • Canada (8)
  • Mexico (2)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Brazil (2)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.51
Avg. company exit year
3
Avg. multiplicator
0.49
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Farmented Foods 31 May 2023 E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Processing Seed 100K United States, Montana, Bozeman
Plumb Pharmaceuticals 18 Apr 2024 Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical Seed 100K United States, Wisconsin, Madison

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