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Hella Ventures

Founders Jason Waterman

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 1.75
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Automotive
  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Technology
  • Internet of Things
Summary

Hella Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the Sunnyvale. The company was established in North America in United States. Hella Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2017.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Hella Ventures, startups are often financed by Velocity, SeedSumo, Techstars New York City Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Volvo Group Venture Capital, Verizon Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Giesecke+Devrient Ventures.

The current fund was established by Jason Waterman. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cyber Security, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Excelfore Corporation, Light Field Lab, CarForce. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

actnano

Automotive
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Nanotechnology
$21M30 Nov 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Oculii

Automotive
Drones
Robotics
Sensor
$55M06 May 2021 Oregon, United States

Drishti

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Software
$25M16 Jun 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

Light Field Lab

Digital Entertainment
Film
Hardware
Industrial Design
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
Software
$28M12 Aug 2019 San Jose, California, United States

Excelfore Corporation

Automotive
Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
26 Sep 2018 Fremont, California, United States

CarForce

Automotive
B2B
Big Data
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$1M01 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Ario

Electronics
Hotel
Internet of Things
Lighting
Smart Building
$400K01 Apr 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States

CarForce

Automotive
B2B
Big Data
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$1M01 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Oculii Raises $55M in Series B Funding

– Oculii, a maker of high-resolution commercial imaging 4D radar, raised $55M in Series B funding.
– The round was co-led by Catapult Ventures and Conductive Ventures, with participation from Taiwania Capital, Susquehanna Investment Group (SIG), HELLA Ventures, PHI-Zoyi Capital, R7 Partners, VectoIQ, ACVC Partners, Mesh Ventures, SV Tech Ventures, Schox Ventures, and Signature Bank.
– The new funding will be used to scale and deliver on demand of Tier-1’s and OEMs globally.

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Total investments 14
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 1.75
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.14
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

actnano

Automotive
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Nanotechnology
$21M30 Nov 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Oculii

Automotive
Drones
Robotics
Sensor
$55M06 May 2021 Oregon, United States

Drishti

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Software
$25M16 Jun 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

Light Field Lab

Digital Entertainment
Film
Hardware
Industrial Design
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
Software
$28M12 Aug 2019 San Jose, California, United States

Excelfore Corporation

Automotive
Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
26 Sep 2018 Fremont, California, United States

CarForce

Automotive
B2B
Big Data
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$1M01 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Ario

Electronics
Hotel
Internet of Things
Lighting
Smart Building
$400K01 Apr 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States

CarForce

Automotive
B2B
Big Data
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$1M01 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States
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