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LaunchPad Venture Group

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Total investments 118
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 89
Rounds per year 4.92
Lead investments 15
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 14
Key employees 15
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Boston.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the LaunchPad Venture Group, startups are often financed by Maine Angels, MassChallenge, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Boston Harbor Angels, Mass Medical Angels, Hub Angels Investment Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Maine Angels, Cherrystone Angel Group, Polaris Partners.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from LaunchPad Venture Group is 1-5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this LaunchPad Venture Group works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2012.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ezCater, Localytics, Daktari Diagnostics Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Software. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 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.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Groma

Information Technology
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
$20M30 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Jaia Robotics

Autonomous Vehicles
Marine Technology
Robotics
$1M21 Jun 2022 Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Zippity

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
CRM
Home Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$3M08 Mar 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Cyvl.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Asset Management
Civil Engineering
$500K01 Jan 2022 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Zippity Cars

Automotive
Service Industry
$3M29 Oct 2021 Arlington, Massachusetts, United States

RaySecur

Security
$13M23 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Pumpspotting

Child Care
Communities
Mobile Apps
$1M12 Aug 2021 Maine, United States

Metrobi

Artificial Intelligence
Fleet Management
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Mobile Apps
Same Day Delivery
Software
Transportation
$2M26 Jul 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

AOA

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M28 Jun 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
News
RaySecur Raises $13M Series A

– RaySecur from San Francisco has announced $13M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Outsiders Fund with participation from JCI Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Johnson Controls, One Way Ventures, Yu Galaxy, Launchpad Venture Group, and Dreamit Ventures.
– The funding will accelerate market adoption of its patented mmWave imaging technology and amplify growth within the mail and package security sector.

pumpspotting Raises $1.15M in Funding

– pumpspotting, a Kittery, Maine-based community-driven breastfeeding support platform, raised $1.15M in seed funding.
– The round was led by MooDoos Investments, with participation from Maine Venture Fund, Maine Angels, Launchpad Venture Group, Opus Ventures, Crystal McKellar and strategic investor Punchbowl, Inc.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth in the B2B channel.

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Total investments 118
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 4.92
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 15
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Groma

Information Technology
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
$20M30 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Jaia Robotics

Autonomous Vehicles
Marine Technology
Robotics
$1M21 Jun 2022 Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Zippity

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
CRM
Home Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$3M08 Mar 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Cyvl.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Asset Management
Civil Engineering
$500K01 Jan 2022 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Zippity Cars

Automotive
Service Industry
$3M29 Oct 2021 Arlington, Massachusetts, United States

RaySecur

Security
$13M23 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Pumpspotting

Child Care
Communities
Mobile Apps
$1M12 Aug 2021 Maine, United States

Metrobi

Artificial Intelligence
Fleet Management
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Mobile Apps
Same Day Delivery
Software
Transportation
$2M26 Jul 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

AOA

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M28 Jun 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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