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Lakewest Venture Partners

Founders Jonathan McCulloch

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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 4.00
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 8
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

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

Lakewest Venture Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The leading representative office of defined 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 5-6 partakers. Despite the Lakewest Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Chicago Ventures, Jumpstart Ventures, FireStarter Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Jumpstart Ventures, Corazon Capital, FireStarter Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Chicago Ventures, Jumpstart Ventures, Wintrust Ventures.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from Lakewest Venture Partners is 10-50 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Opposing the other organizations, this Lakewest Venture Partners works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Fashion. 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 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 Scrollmotion d/b/a Ingage, Zipwhip, SpotHero.

The current fund was established by Jonathan McCulloch. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Realvision

Digital Media
Marketing
Real Estate
$1M15 Mar 2017 Ontario

AddStructure

E-Commerce
Natural Language Processing
Product Search
Search Engine
$1M27 Feb 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Cumulus Funding

Consumer
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
01 Mar 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Blitsy

Art
E-Commerce
Retail
Video
$6M25 Jan 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$22M24 Nov 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Bucketfeet

E-Commerce
Fashion
Internet
Shoes
$7M27 Oct 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

XOR Data Exchange

Analytics
Cyber Security
Information Services
Marketing
$4M10 Aug 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

Popular Pays

Business/Productivity Software
Content
Content Creators
Content Marketing
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Mobile
Social Media Marketing
$2M23 Jul 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Packback

Big Data
Education
Recruiting
$1M09 Jun 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 40
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 4.00
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Realvision

Digital Media
Marketing
Real Estate
$1M15 Mar 2017 Ontario

AddStructure

E-Commerce
Natural Language Processing
Product Search
Search Engine
$1M27 Feb 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Cumulus Funding

Consumer
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
01 Mar 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Blitsy

Art
E-Commerce
Retail
Video
$6M25 Jan 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$22M24 Nov 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Bucketfeet

E-Commerce
Fashion
Internet
Shoes
$7M27 Oct 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

XOR Data Exchange

Analytics
Cyber Security
Information Services
Marketing
$4M10 Aug 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

Popular Pays

Business/Productivity Software
Content
Content Creators
Content Marketing
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Mobile
Social Media Marketing
$2M23 Jul 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Packback

Big Data
Education
Recruiting
$1M09 Jun 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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