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Golden Seeds

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Total investments 117
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 84
Rounds per year 5.85
Lead investments 17
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 7
Key employees 30
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical Device
  • Medical
Summary

Golden Seeds appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2004. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Mobile. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Saladax Biomedical, Modumetal, Cognition Therapeutics

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Golden Seeds performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

Besides them, we counted 30 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Golden Seeds, startups are often financed by Maine Angels, Sand Hill Angels, Innovation Works. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tech Coast Angels, Astia Angels, Sand Hill Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tech Coast Angels, Maine Angels, Astia Angels.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Uncaged Innovations

Biotechnology
Sustainability
Textiles
$5M02 Jul 2024 Troy, New York, United States

Materna Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$5M21 May 2024 Mountain View, California, United States

Hello Alice

Digital Marketing
Information Services
Information Technology
04 Apr 2024 Houston, Texas, United States

MeetElise

Artificial Intelligence
Real Estate
$35M07 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Nalu Bio

Biotechnology
$12M28 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Jurata Thin Film

Biotechnology
$4M29 Nov 2022 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

CNote

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
$7M19 Sep 2022 Oakland, California, United States

AnaOno

Health Care
Lingerie
Women's
$1M14 Sep 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Alcatraz

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Facial Recognition
Machine Learning
Security
$25M13 Sep 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States
News
Meetcaregivers Raises Over $1M in Funding

– Meetcaregivers Inc is a Newton, Mass.-based marketplace for seniors.
– The company raised over $1m in funding.
– Backers included MassMutual through the MM Catalyst Fund, 37Angels, Golden Seeds, TiE-Boston Angels, Kachuwa Impact, along with other angel investors.
– The new investment will be used to improve technology and its care-portal, scale operations in New England, and penetrate new markets.

Hello Alice Raises $21M in Series B Funding

– Hello Alice is a machine learning platform connecting small business owners to capital, networks and business services.
– Series B funding raised $21m.
– The round was led by QED Investors with participation from Backstage Capital, Blue Ivy, Cathie Reid, BCO Venture Fund, Belle Capital, Jacki Zehner, Jake Hastings, Harbert Growth Partners, How Women Invest, Golden Seeds, Green Book Ventures, Jean Case, Lovell Family, Ring Fund, Shatter Fund, Signia Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.
– The company intends to use the funds to enhance the predictive capabilities on its platform to further personalized learning paths and launch a mobile application.

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Total investments 117
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 5.85
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Uncaged Innovations

Biotechnology
Sustainability
Textiles
$5M02 Jul 2024 Troy, New York, United States

Materna Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$5M21 May 2024 Mountain View, California, United States

Hello Alice

Digital Marketing
Information Services
Information Technology
04 Apr 2024 Houston, Texas, United States

MeetElise

Artificial Intelligence
Real Estate
$35M07 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Nalu Bio

Biotechnology
$12M28 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Jurata Thin Film

Biotechnology
$4M29 Nov 2022 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

CNote

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
$7M19 Sep 2022 Oakland, California, United States

AnaOno

Health Care
Lingerie
Women's
$1M14 Sep 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Alcatraz

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Facial Recognition
Machine Learning
Security
$25M13 Sep 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States
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