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IU Ventures

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Total investments 44
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 1.69
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Enterprise Software
  • Therapeutics
  • Mobile
Summary

IU Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Bloomington.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Higher Education. 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 Mentor Collective.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the IU Ventures, startups are often financed by NXT Ventures, Learn Capital, Techstars Boston Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Strada Education Network, Lumina Impact Ventures, LuminaFoundation.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Plan Forward

Dental
$2M10 Oct 2023 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Boardable

Collaboration
Document Management
SaaS
Software
$2M24 Oct 2022 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Folia

$2M16 May 2022 Bloomington, Indiana, United States

iink Endorsements

Financial Services
InsurTech
Payments
$2M18 Mar 2022 Tampa, Florida, United States

HotDrop

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
B2B
B2C
Digital Media
Independent Music
Machine Learning
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Music
$180K01 Jan 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Kovina Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$2M20 Oct 2021 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

iink Endorsements

Financial Services
InsurTech
Payments
$1M13 May 2021 Tampa, Florida, United States

Encamp

Enterprise Software
Environmental Consulting
Environmental Engineering
Software
$12M15 Apr 2021 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Canopy

Computer Vision
Software
$1M10 Jun 2020 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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Total investments 44
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 1.69
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.32
Group Appearance index 0.52

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Plan Forward

Dental
$2M10 Oct 2023 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Boardable

Collaboration
Document Management
SaaS
Software
$2M24 Oct 2022 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Folia

$2M16 May 2022 Bloomington, Indiana, United States

iink Endorsements

Financial Services
InsurTech
Payments
$2M18 Mar 2022 Tampa, Florida, United States

HotDrop

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
B2B
B2C
Digital Media
Independent Music
Machine Learning
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Music
$180K01 Jan 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Kovina Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$2M20 Oct 2021 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

iink Endorsements

Financial Services
InsurTech
Payments
$1M13 May 2021 Tampa, Florida, United States

Encamp

Enterprise Software
Environmental Consulting
Environmental Engineering
Software
$12M15 Apr 2021 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Canopy

Computer Vision
Software
$1M10 Jun 2020 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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