Impact Engine
Venture Capital
Active
Chicago, United States
83
4M
66
6.38
0.20
4
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Impact Engine is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Impact Engine, startups are often financed by Reach Capital, Harvard Business School Angels Chicago, Better Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OCA Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Kapor Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HPA, Salesforce Ventures, Lewis & Clark Ventures.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Communities, Financial Services. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Climb Credit, BookNook, KickUp. 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.
The current fund was established by Jamie Jones, Linda Darragh. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.
The top activity for fund was in 2014. When the investment is from Impact Engine the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 250K — 3M
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 85000000
- Fund raised date
- 2024-02-28
Analytics
- Total investments
- 83
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 6.38
- Follow on index
- 0.20
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (21)
- Software (18)
- Education (17)
- SaaS (9)
- Financial Services (7) Show 120 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (77)
- Canada (4)
- Kenya (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 8M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.72
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mae | 07 May 2024 | Health Care, Wellness, Women's | Seed | United States, New York, New York | |
| Slang | 20 Dec 2021 | B2B, Human Resources, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Corporate Training, EdTech, Language Learning, Skill Assessment | Early Stage Venture | 14M | United States, Massachusetts, Boston |
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