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Imagination Capital

Founders Rachel Lam Richard Parsons

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 4.29
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile Apps
  • Analytics
  • Mobile
  • SaaS
Summary

In 2017 was created Imagination Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Rachel Lam, Richard Parsons. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Marketplace, Trading Platform. 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 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Veritonic Inc., Cou2013Star, Forge.AI

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Imagination Capital, startups are often financed by Upstage Ventures, Haatch, Yes VC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TACK Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Female Founders Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Victor Oladipo, Spark Capital, Sapphire Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Buzzer

Android
iOS
Mobile Apps
Sports
$20M24 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

Booth AI

E-Commerce
SaaS
Software
01 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

The Ankler

News
$1M21 Jun 2022 -

ANTENNA

Analytics
Software
$10M24 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

COMBO

14 Feb 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ANTENNA

Analytics
Software
$10M01 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

COMBO

01 Jan 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Merri

Event Management
SaaS
01 Jun 2021 New York, New York, United States

Lance

Financial Services
Freelance
Software
$2M18 May 2021 New York, New York, United States
News
Upsie Raises $18.2M in Series A Funding

– Upsie is a St. Paul, Minn.-based consumer-centric platform for purchasing product warranties.
– Company raised $18.2m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by True Ventures with participation from Concrete Rose VC, Avanta Ventures, Kapor Capital, Samsung Next, Massive, Backstage Capital, Awesome People Ventures, Draft Ventures, Matchstick Ventures, M25, Silicon Valley Bank, Bread & Butter Ventures, Ordinary Ventures, Diverse Angels, Imagination Capital, Uncommon VC, Marc Belton, Daren Cotter (Founder and CEO of InboxDollars), George Azih (Founder and CEO of LeaseQuery), Richard Parsons, Anton Vincent, Sri Pangulur, Damon DiVito, Jon and Lottie Rezneck, etc.
– The company will use the funds to hire, increase customer awareness and continue building its warranty product offerings and verticals.

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Total investments 30
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 4.29
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Buzzer

Android
iOS
Mobile Apps
Sports
$20M24 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

Booth AI

E-Commerce
SaaS
Software
01 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

The Ankler

News
$1M21 Jun 2022 -

ANTENNA

Analytics
Software
$10M24 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

COMBO

14 Feb 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ANTENNA

Analytics
Software
$10M01 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

COMBO

01 Jan 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Merri

Event Management
SaaS
01 Jun 2021 New York, New York, United States

Lance

Financial Services
Freelance
Software
$2M18 May 2021 New York, New York, United States
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