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Indicator Ventures

Founders Baiyin Murphy Ben Luntz Geoffrey Bernstein Jonathan Struhl

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Total investments 99
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 50
Rounds per year 9.90
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 8
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
Summary

Indicator Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The current fund was established by Ben Luntz, Geoffrey Bernstein, Gerald Chan, Jonathan Struhl. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Indicator Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, ff Venture Capital, Wavemaker Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ff Venture Capital, Y Combinator, QueensBridge Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Polaris Partners.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Indicator Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Indicator Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Edyn, Simplifeye, tbh. 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 fund investment industries, there are Internet, Machine Learning. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arda Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
01 Oct 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Starpath Robotics

Air Transportation
Space Travel
Transportation
$12M20 Aug 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Simply Bail

B2B
Legal
Legal Tech
$2M09 Feb 2024 Santa Monica, California, United States

RepRally

Marketplace
Software
01 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Audioshake

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Music
$2M09 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

WOLF

Financial Services
FinTech
Social Media
$4M15 Jun 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Airspace Link

Aerospace
Drone Management
Drones
Geospatial
Government
Mapping Services
$23M10 Jun 2022 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Reflex

Brand Marketing
$4M08 Jun 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

co-op commerce

E-Commerce
$20M04 Mar 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 99
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 9.90
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arda Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
01 Oct 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Starpath Robotics

Air Transportation
Space Travel
Transportation
$12M20 Aug 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Simply Bail

B2B
Legal
Legal Tech
$2M09 Feb 2024 Santa Monica, California, United States

RepRally

Marketplace
Software
01 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Audioshake

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Music
$2M09 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

WOLF

Financial Services
FinTech
Social Media
$4M15 Jun 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Airspace Link

Aerospace
Drone Management
Drones
Geospatial
Government
Mapping Services
$23M10 Jun 2022 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Reflex

Brand Marketing
$4M08 Jun 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

co-op commerce

E-Commerce
$20M04 Mar 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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