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Global Sports Venture Studio

Founders Cole Van Nice Kyle Bunch Tucker Kain

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 2.25
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Sports
  • Software
  • Apps
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2015 was created Global Sports Venture Studio, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Cole Van Nice, Stephen Plumlee, Tucker Kain. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Appetize, Renegade Brands, Keemotion 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 Digital Media, Video.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Global Sports Venture Studio, startups are often financed by Social Starts, R/GA Ventures, Vives Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TACK Ventures, Elysian Park Ventures, R/GA Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Elysian Park Ventures, IrishAngels, ward.ventures.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Greenfly

Digital Media
File Sharing
Photo Sharing
SaaS
Social Media Management
Social Media Marketing
Video
$6M10 Nov 2016 Santa Monica, California, United States

ShotTracker

Analytics
Basketball
Software
Sports
$5M19 Oct 2016 Kansas, United States

SidePrize

Mobile Payments
Payments
Video Games
$20K24 Aug 2015 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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Total investments 18
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 2.25
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Greenfly

Digital Media
File Sharing
Photo Sharing
SaaS
Social Media Management
Social Media Marketing
Video
$6M10 Nov 2016 Santa Monica, California, United States

ShotTracker

Analytics
Basketball
Software
Sports
$5M19 Oct 2016 Kansas, United States

SidePrize

Mobile Payments
Payments
Video Games
$20K24 Aug 2015 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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