i/o Ventures

Total investments

21

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

1.62

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareMobileMarketing AutomationAppsSocial MediaVideoAdvertisingBrand MarketingContent CreatorsSEO

Summary

In 2010 was created i/o Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the i/o Ventures, startups are often financed by TomorrowVentures, Techstars Ventures, Social Starts. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TomorrowVentures, Techstars Ventures, Social Starts. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Social Starts, Social Capital, Sand Hill Angels.

This i/o Ventures works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2012. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The fund was created by Jim Young, Paul Bragiel. The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Advertising, Mobile. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline vidIQ, Backplane For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
0
Exits
8
Rounds per year
1.62
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Apps (8)
  • Software (6)
  • Mobile (5)
  • Advertising (5)
  • Video (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
  • France (1)
  • Tunisia (1)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.48
Avg. company exit year
2
Avg. multiplicator
2.77

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Backplane 16 Feb 2012 Apps, Social Network, Social Media Early Stage Venture 12M United States, California, Palo Alto
Epignosis 31 May 2012 Software, Information Technology, E-Learning, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Education Seed 944K United States, California, San Francisco
30 Jun 2021 Software, Insurance Early Stage Venture 18M England, London, United Kingdom
Skin Innovation Overnight 25 Sep 2016 Beauty, Cosmetics, Health Care Seed 0 United States, New York
vidIQ 26 Feb 2013 Marketing Automation, Video, Advertising, Brand Marketing, Content Creators, SEO Seed 2M United States, California, San Francisco

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