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Impulse VC

Founders Grigory Firsov Kirill Belov

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Total investments 61
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 48
Rounds per year 6.10
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 6
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Advertising
  • Software
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Mobile
Summary

Impulse VC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Moscow. The company was established in Europe in Russian Federation.

The high activity for fund was in 2013. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Impulse VC works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Impulse VC is 5-10 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Grigory Firsov, Kirill Belov. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Impulse VC, startups are often financed by OpenOcean, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Blue Wire Capital, Seedcamp, OpenOcean. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tamburi Investment Partners, Concentric, Blue Wire Capital.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Shortlist, Tribuna Digital and Sports.ru, Homeshift Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Service Industry, Advertising.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vecna Robotics

Logistics
Robotics
Supply Chain Management
$65M26 Jan 2022 Massachusetts, United States

e-gree

Legal
Legal Tech
$1M31 May 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Endel

Mobile
Music
Personal Health
Productivity Tools
Smart Cities
Smart Home
Software Engineering
$5M23 Sep 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Horticulture
$4M20 Aug 2020 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Zadaa

Application Software
Apps
Clothing
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Fashion
Information Services (B2C)
Internet Retail
Marketplace
Mobile
$4M01 Feb 2020 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

HomeHero

Internet
Software
$1M01 Jul 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

GuestReady

Hospitality
Property Management
Real Estate Services (B2C)
Rental Property
Travel
$6M17 Jun 2019 Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland

Buzzoole

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Social Media
Social Media Advertising
$5M05 Dec 2018 Naples, Italy, Campania

Unitiki

Apps
Ticketing
$1M04 Dec 2018 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

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Total investments 61
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 6.10
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.56

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vecna Robotics

Logistics
Robotics
Supply Chain Management
$65M26 Jan 2022 Massachusetts, United States

e-gree

Legal
Legal Tech
$1M31 May 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Endel

Mobile
Music
Personal Health
Productivity Tools
Smart Cities
Smart Home
Software Engineering
$5M23 Sep 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Horticulture
$4M20 Aug 2020 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Zadaa

Application Software
Apps
Clothing
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Fashion
Information Services (B2C)
Internet Retail
Marketplace
Mobile
$4M01 Feb 2020 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

HomeHero

Internet
Software
$1M01 Jul 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

GuestReady

Hospitality
Property Management
Real Estate Services (B2C)
Rental Property
Travel
$6M17 Jun 2019 Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland

Buzzoole

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Social Media
Social Media Advertising
$5M05 Dec 2018 Naples, Italy, Campania

Unitiki

Apps
Ticketing
$1M04 Dec 2018 Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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