Higher Ground Labs
Venture Capital, Accelerator/Incubator
Active
Chicago, United States
55
918K
46
7.86
8
0.15
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
The important activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.
The fund was created by Andrew McLaughlin, Betsy Hoover, Shomik Dutta.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Politics, Big Data. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wethos, Hustle. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Higher Ground Labs, startups are often financed by MergeLane, Y Combinator, John Johnson. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Media Ventures, Y Combinator, ValueStream Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Syndicate Fund, New Media Ventures, 32 Ventures.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 55
- Lead investments
- 8
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 7.86
- Follow on index
- 0.15
- Investments by industry
- Software (22)
- Politics (13)
- SaaS (10)
- Government (10)
- Advertising (7) Show 59 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (44)
- Canada (3)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 4
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.29
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Momentum | 01 Apr 2024 | Software, Information Technology, Apps, Mobile Apps, Charity | Seed | United States, California, Oakland | |
| UNPACKING | 01 Jun 2021 | Seed | 100K | United States, California, Oakland |
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