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Higher Ground Labs

Founders Andrew McLaughlin Betsy Hoover Shomik Dutta

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$918K
Portfolio companies 47
Rounds per year 7.86
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Politics
  • SaaS
  • Government
  • Advertising
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Momentum

Apps
Charity
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Software
31 Jul 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Quiller

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
$1M11 Jul 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Measure Studio

21 Apr 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Plural

News
Productivity Tools
Project Management
Virtual Workforce
01 Jan 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

JusticeText

Audio
Software
Video
$2M06 Sep 2022 Irvine, California, United States

Civitech

CivicTech
Service Industry
Software
$10M11 Jan 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Votus, Inc.

Analytics
Communities
Consulting
Internet
Market Research
Mobile
News
Politics
SaaS
21 Jun 2021 -

UNPACKING

$100K01 Jun 2021 Oakland, California, United States

New/Mode

CivicTech
Government
GovTech
Non Profit
Politics
SaaS
Software
Subscription Service
Web Apps
02 Mar 2020 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Total investments 55
Average round size 918K
Rounds per year 7.86
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.29

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Momentum

Apps
Charity
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Software
31 Jul 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Quiller

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
$1M11 Jul 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Measure Studio

21 Apr 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Plural

News
Productivity Tools
Project Management
Virtual Workforce
01 Jan 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

JusticeText

Audio
Software
Video
$2M06 Sep 2022 Irvine, California, United States

Civitech

CivicTech
Service Industry
Software
$10M11 Jan 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Votus, Inc.

Analytics
Communities
Consulting
Internet
Market Research
Mobile
News
Politics
SaaS
21 Jun 2021 -

UNPACKING

$100K01 Jun 2021 Oakland, California, United States

New/Mode

CivicTech
Government
GovTech
Non Profit
Politics
SaaS
Software
Subscription Service
Web Apps
02 Mar 2020 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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