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Highway1

Founders Brady Forrest Liam Casey

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Total investments 86
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$117K
Portfolio companies 81
Rounds per year 10.75
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 9
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Internet of Things
  • Health Care
Summary

Highway1 appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2015. This Highway1 works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Highway1 is 1-5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 fund investment industries, there are Robotics, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cue, Drop, Osmo Systems.

The current fund was established by Brady Forrest, Liam Casey.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Highway1, startups are often financed by Wayra, Techstars, Plug and Play. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Leo Chan, Kima Ventures, FuturePlay. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, LAUNCH, Uncork Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Roxy

Information Services
Information Technology
$2M15 Nov 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Orbityl Labs

Computer
Consumer Electronics
Technical Support
01 Nov 2017 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nikkei Business Publications

Advertising
News
23 May 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Game of Drones

Digital Media
Drones
Gaming
$1M18 May 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Cocoon Cam

Application Software
Computer Vision
Consumer Electronics
Electronics (B2C)
Health Care
Internet Retail
Parenting
08 Feb 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

Fast Company

News
Publishing
08 Jan 2016 New York, New York, United States

ENSO

Automotive
Consumer
Energy
Medical Device
Wearables
$2M03 Nov 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Magic Instruments

Mobile
Mobile Apps
Music
Music Education
Musical Instruments
Software
$75K03 Aug 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Primo Toys

Education
Robotics
01 Jan 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 86
Average round size 117K
Rounds per year 10.75
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.16

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Roxy

Information Services
Information Technology
$2M15 Nov 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Orbityl Labs

Computer
Consumer Electronics
Technical Support
01 Nov 2017 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nikkei Business Publications

Advertising
News
23 May 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Game of Drones

Digital Media
Drones
Gaming
$1M18 May 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Cocoon Cam

Application Software
Computer Vision
Consumer Electronics
Electronics (B2C)
Health Care
Internet Retail
Parenting
08 Feb 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

Fast Company

News
Publishing
08 Jan 2016 New York, New York, United States

ENSO

Automotive
Consumer
Energy
Medical Device
Wearables
$2M03 Nov 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Magic Instruments

Mobile
Mobile Apps
Music
Music Education
Musical Instruments
Software
$75K03 Aug 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Primo Toys

Education
Robotics
01 Jan 2015 London, England, United Kingdom
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