Inspiration Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Burlingame, United States

Total investments

30

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

1.88

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsMobileMarketing AutomationEnterprise SoftwareComputerFile Sharing

Summary

Inspiration Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Burlingame.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Openbucks, Vyng, Caban Systems. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Employee Benefits, FinTech. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Inspiration Ventures works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Inspiration Ventures, startups are often financed by Intercept Ventures, RPM Ventures, Frontier Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intercept Ventures, Seven Peaks Ventures, RPM Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intercept Ventures, RPM Ventures, Portland Seed Fund.

This organization was formed by Gady Nemirovsky, Robert Fanini. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
2
Exits
3
Rounds per year
1.88
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Mobile (5)
  • Financial Services (4)
  • FinTech (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (29)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
43M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
8

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Caban Systems 22 Jul 2022 Energy Storage, Software, Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Battery Early Stage Venture 51M United States, California
Vyng 10 Oct 2017 Software, Apps, Video, Digital Entertainment Seed 3M United States, California, Los Angeles
WallCompass 11 Jul 2014 Mobile, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Construction, Developer APIs, NFC, QR Codes Seed 20K United States, New Jersey, Woodcliff Lake

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