Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

IDEA Fund Partners

Founders John Cambier Lister Delgado

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 95
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 54
Rounds per year 5.28
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 9
Key employees 13
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile Apps
  • Mobile
Summary

IDEA Fund Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Durham.

This organization was formed by David P. Rizzo, John Cambier, Lister Delgado. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

This IDEA Fund Partners works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Distil Networks, Social Solutions, Allvision. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, E-Commerce.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the IDEA Fund Partners, startups are often financed by OCA Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Core Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Alerion Ventures, Triangle Angel Partners, Techstars Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, OCA Ventures, Battery Ventures.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of IDEA Fund Partners:
Typical Co-investors
IDEA Fund Partners is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after IDEA Fund Partners:

Funds with similar focus

Funds from United States
Funds with similar focus located in United States:
Funds with the same geo focus
Funds with similar geography of portfolio companies:
Funds doing lead investments
Funds with similar focus acting as lead investors:

Look at other 50 related and similar funds Collapse list
Fund NameLocation
AMT China, Shanghai
Angola Capital -
Avva Technology Pte Ltd Central, Central Region, Singapore
Brain Corp California, San Diego, United States
Brama One Ventures Indonesia, Jawa Timur, Surabaya
Changchun UP Optotech Co., Ltd. Changchun, China, Jilin
Chasestone Capital China, Shanghai
Crescendix France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Deerfield Management New York, New York, United States
Gradiente Sgr Italy, Padua, Veneto
Scripps Networks Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Shanghai Xiangyi Touzi Guanli Youxian Gongsi China, Shanghai
SOUL FI Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Supreme Group Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Trellis Bioscience California, San Francisco, United States
Venture Farm California, Irvine, United States
VivaKi Chicago, Illinois, United States
Zhejiang Ausun Pharmaceutical China, Jiangsu, Taizhou

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lucid Drone Technologies, Inc.

Industrial Automation
$9M08 May 2024 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Keep Company

Employee Benefits
Human Resources
Professional Services
Wellness
$1M24 Apr 2024 -

Synapse

Collaboration
E-Learning
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
Training
$4M27 Sep 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

EcoMap Technologies

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Communities
Software
$3M14 Aug 2023 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

RightRev

Finance
Information Technology
Software
$12M11 Jul 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Revcast

Risk Management
Skill Assessment
$3M28 Jun 2023 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Bionic Health

Health Care
Medical
$3M19 Mar 2023 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Nestment

$3M21 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Get Spiffy

Consumer
Internet
Mobile Apps
$30M15 Feb 2023 Durham, North Carolina, United States
News
Pendo Raises $150M in Series F Funding

– Pendo from Raleigh, NC, provides a solution for companies to bridge the gap between how users expect software to work and their experience actually using it.
– Series F $150m round led by B Capital Group with participation from Silver Lake Waterman and existing investors Battery Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Tiger Global Management, FirstMark Capital, Geodesic Capital, IDEA Fund Partners and Contour Venture Partners.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate global expansion, strategic acquisitions and continued innovation in the platform.

Payzer Raises $23M in Series D Funding

– Payzer is a mobile and cloud-based Field Service Management software provider based in Charlotte.
– The company raised $23m in Series D funding led by Harbert Growth Partners with participation from Grotech Ventures, Route 66 Ventures, Ferguson Ventures, IDEA Fund Partners, and Alerion Ventures.
– The new investment will be aimed at expanding the company’s business reach across HVAC, plumbing, electric, roofing, and other specialty trade markets.

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent IDEA Fund Partners?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 95
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 5.28
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lucid Drone Technologies, Inc.

Industrial Automation
$9M08 May 2024 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Keep Company

Employee Benefits
Human Resources
Professional Services
Wellness
$1M24 Apr 2024 -

Synapse

Collaboration
E-Learning
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
Training
$4M27 Sep 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

EcoMap Technologies

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Communities
Software
$3M14 Aug 2023 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

RightRev

Finance
Information Technology
Software
$12M11 Jul 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Revcast

Risk Management
Skill Assessment
$3M28 Jun 2023 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Bionic Health

Health Care
Medical
$3M19 Mar 2023 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Nestment

$3M21 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Get Spiffy

Consumer
Internet
Mobile Apps
$30M15 Feb 2023 Durham, North Carolina, United States
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: