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Leading Edge Ventures

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 1.56
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Analytics
  • IT Infrastructure
Summary

In 2013 was created Leading Edge Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Newark.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Leading Edge Ventures, startups are often financed by Pivot Investment Partners, Fenway Summer Ventures, Timothy Staley. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Activate Venture Partners, VT Technology Ventures, VC23. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Symmetrical Ventures, Paul Audet, Guggenheim Investments.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Othot, redIQ, Tangen Biosciences. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as IT Infrastructure, Financial Services.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
IT Management
Software
$10M06 May 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
IT Management
Software
$2M15 Sep 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ride Health

Health Care
Transportation
$6M07 Jan 2020 New York, New York, United States

Tangen Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$9M20 Jun 2019 Connecticut, United States

Pliant.io

Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
IT Management
Software
$2M21 May 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

scaleMatters

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$2M31 Mar 2019 Maryland, United States

HighQA

Manufacturing
Software
$2M01 Dec 2018 Hazlet, New Jersey, United States

CanSurround

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
02 Jul 2018 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Othot

Analytics
Higher Education
Software
$3M13 Jun 2018 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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Total investments 14
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 1.56
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
IT Management
Software
$10M06 May 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
IT Management
Software
$2M15 Sep 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ride Health

Health Care
Transportation
$6M07 Jan 2020 New York, New York, United States

Tangen Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$9M20 Jun 2019 Connecticut, United States

Pliant.io

Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
IT Management
Software
$2M21 May 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

scaleMatters

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$2M31 Mar 2019 Maryland, United States

HighQA

Manufacturing
Software
$2M01 Dec 2018 Hazlet, New Jersey, United States

CanSurround

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
02 Jul 2018 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Othot

Analytics
Higher Education
Software
$3M13 Jun 2018 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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