Lamp Post Group

Status

Active

Location

Chattanooga, United States

Total investments

14

Average round size

537K

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

1.17

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareSaaSLifestyleNewsSocial MediaDigital MediaService IndustryLocal Advertising

Summary

Lamp Post Group appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chattanooga. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Lamp Post Group, startups are often financed by Zach Nelson, VentureSouth, Tuesday Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Chattanooga Renaissance Fund, Stephen Culp, Blank Slate Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techstars Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Garry Tan.

The current fund was established by Barry Large, Jack Studer, Miller Welborn, Shelley Prevost, Ted Alling.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SupplyHog, PandoDaily, Ambition. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Blogging Platforms, Social Media. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The top activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Lamp Post Group works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

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Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.17
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • News (5)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Internet (3)
  • Social Media (3)
  • Local Advertising (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Group Appearance index
0.57
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ambition 24 Feb 2014 Software, Sales, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Gamification Seed United States, Tennessee, Chattanooga
Fanmiles 01 Mar 2017 Internet, Loyalty Programs Seed 3M Berlin, Germany
ReadyCart 02 May 2014 E-Commerce, Internet, Content Creators Seed 250K United States, Tennessee, Chattanooga

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