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Lamp Post Group

Founders Barry Large Jack Studer Miller Welborn Shelley Prevost Ted Alling

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$537K
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 1.17
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • News
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Social Media
  • Local 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

The House

Advertising Platforms
Events
Food and Beverage
Local Advertising
Location Based Services
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Music
Music Venues
Restaurants
01 Jan 2017 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Torch

Corporate Training
E-Commerce
Education
Human Resources
Internet
Online Portals
SaaS
Shopping
Software
Training
Transportation
Wireless
$2M20 Nov 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

PriceWaiter

Big Data
Consumer
E-Commerce
Retail
Retail Technology
08 Jul 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

ReadyCart

Content Creators
E-Commerce
Internet
$250K02 May 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Ambition

Enterprise Software
Gamification
SaaS
Sales
Software
24 Feb 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

PandoDaily

Blogging Platforms
Digital Media
News
$1M17 Feb 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Bellhop

Service Industry
$1M07 Feb 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Bellhop

Service Industry
$600K01 Nov 2012 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

SupplyHog

Construction
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
$400K01 Mar 2012 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

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Total investments 14
Average round size 537K
Rounds per year 1.17
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

The House

Advertising Platforms
Events
Food and Beverage
Local Advertising
Location Based Services
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Music
Music Venues
Restaurants
01 Jan 2017 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Torch

Corporate Training
E-Commerce
Education
Human Resources
Internet
Online Portals
SaaS
Shopping
Software
Training
Transportation
Wireless
$2M20 Nov 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

PriceWaiter

Big Data
Consumer
E-Commerce
Retail
Retail Technology
08 Jul 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

ReadyCart

Content Creators
E-Commerce
Internet
$250K02 May 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Ambition

Enterprise Software
Gamification
SaaS
Sales
Software
24 Feb 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

PandoDaily

Blogging Platforms
Digital Media
News
$1M17 Feb 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Bellhop

Service Industry
$1M07 Feb 2014 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Bellhop

Service Industry
$600K01 Nov 2012 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

SupplyHog

Construction
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
$400K01 Mar 2012 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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