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i/o Ventures

Founders Jim Young Paul Bragiel

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Total investments 21
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 1.62
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 8
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Apps
  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Advertising
  • Video
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Iron Ox

Agriculture
Green Building
GreenTech
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
Sustainability
$53M22 Sep 2021 California, United States

vidIQ

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Content Creators
Marketing Automation
SEO
Video
$2M26 Feb 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Finance
Property Management
Real Estate
Rental
Software
$1M04 Oct 2012 Portland, Oregon, United States

ApptheGame - Swoopt Daily Fantasy Sports

Mobile
Sports
15 Aug 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

vidIQ

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Content Creators
Marketing Automation
SEO
Video
$2M01 Aug 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

vidIQ

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Content Creators
Marketing Automation
SEO
Video
$100K23 Mar 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Onefeat

Gamification
Social Media
01 Mar 2012 Ile-de-France

Backplane

Apps
Social Media
Social Network
$12M16 Feb 2012 Palo Alto, California, United States

Backplane

Apps
Social Media
Social Network
$1M16 Aug 2011 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 21
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.62
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.48

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Iron Ox

Agriculture
Green Building
GreenTech
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
Sustainability
$53M22 Sep 2021 California, United States

vidIQ

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Content Creators
Marketing Automation
SEO
Video
$2M26 Feb 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Finance
Property Management
Real Estate
Rental
Software
$1M04 Oct 2012 Portland, Oregon, United States

ApptheGame - Swoopt Daily Fantasy Sports

Mobile
Sports
15 Aug 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

vidIQ

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Content Creators
Marketing Automation
SEO
Video
$2M01 Aug 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

vidIQ

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Content Creators
Marketing Automation
SEO
Video
$100K23 Mar 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Onefeat

Gamification
Social Media
01 Mar 2012 Ile-de-France

Backplane

Apps
Social Media
Social Network
$12M16 Feb 2012 Palo Alto, California, United States

Backplane

Apps
Social Media
Social Network
$1M16 Aug 2011 Palo Alto, California, United States
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