Lightbank is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.
This organization was formed by Brad Keywell, Eric Lefkofsky. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Square, Uptake, Udemy For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Social Media, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.
The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. When the investment is from Lightbank the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Lightbank works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2012. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Lightbank, startups are often financed by Techstars, New Enterprise Associates, 500 Startups. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pritzker Group Venture Capital, SV Angel, Eniac Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bullpen Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Insight Partners.
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Notable deals
| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Pinch | $3M | 09 Apr 2024 | Evanston, Illinois, United States | ||
Protiv | $2M | 04 Apr 2024 | New York, New York, United States | ||
1up | $3M | 01 Nov 2023 | - | ||
Blueprint | $9M | 27 Jun 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | ||
AllFly | $2M | 29 Mar 2023 | Orlando, Florida, United States | ||
Bacarai | $2M | 28 Mar 2023 | Orlando, Florida, United States | ||
Stride | $750K | 26 Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | ||
Paytient | $33M | 10 Jan 2023 | Columbia, Missouri, United States | ||
Stride | $750K | 02 Dec 2022 | - |
– Felux is a B2B marketplace and supply chain platform for the steel and industrial industry.
– Company raised $5.1m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Expa, with participation from 8VC and Lightbank.
– The new investment will be used to continue expanding operations and business reach.
– Klover, which is democratizing access to modern financial services by leveraging consumers’ permissioned data, today announced the close of $60m in new funding.
– The round led by Mercato Partners Traverse Fund participation from new and existing investors including Lightbank, Core Innovation Capital and Starting Line.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand the sales, marketing, engineering and product teams aggressively, grow their 1.5 million user base, and broaden the services and value to their consumers.
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| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Pinch | $3M | 09 Apr 2024 | Evanston, Illinois, United States | ||
Protiv | $2M | 04 Apr 2024 | New York, New York, United States | ||
1up | $3M | 01 Nov 2023 | - | ||
Blueprint | $9M | 27 Jun 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | ||
AllFly | $2M | 29 Mar 2023 | Orlando, Florida, United States | ||
Bacarai | $2M | 28 Mar 2023 | Orlando, Florida, United States | ||
Stride | $750K | 26 Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | ||
Paytient | $33M | 10 Jan 2023 | Columbia, Missouri, United States | ||
Stride | $750K | 02 Dec 2022 | - |
