IDEA Fund Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Durham, United States

Total investments

95

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

54

Rounds per year

5.28

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.43

Exits

9

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSAppsMobile Apps

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.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
MobilityFuture of WorkBiotech/Life SciencesGoodsCybersecurity Show 8 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
500K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
95
Lead investments
10
Exits
9
Rounds per year
5.28
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Software (35)
  • SaaS (26)
  • Information Technology (21)
  • Mobile Apps (16)
  • Mobile (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (91)
  • Canada (3)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
48M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.34
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bionic Health 19 Mar 2023 Health Care, Medical Seed 3M United States, North Carolina, Durham
Fenris 07 Apr 2021 FinTech, Machine Learning, SaaS, Insurance, InsurTech, Predictive Analytics, Commercial Insurance, Property Insurance, Life Insurance, Auto Insurance Seed 2M United States, Virginia, Glen Allen

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