Linseed Capital

Total investments

12

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

8

Rounds per year

0.86

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileAppsMobile PaymentsCloud ComputingEventsTravelPrice Comparison

Summary

Linseed Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2007. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Omaha.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Linseed Capital, startups are often financed by Nebraska Angel Network, DFJ Growth, DFJ. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Nebraska Angel Network, Lightbank, Dundee Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nebraska Angel Network, ff Venture Capital, Triompf.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Linseed Capital performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2012.

The fund was created by Jim Linder, Karen Linder. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Apps, Subscription Service. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flywheel, Leap.it, SignUp.com (formerly VolunteerSpot).

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.86
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • Mobile (4)
  • Travel (3)
  • Events (3)
  • Mobile Payments (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
250K
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bulu Group 05 Sep 2012 E-Commerce, Fitness, Lifestyle, Marketplace, Personal Health, Nutrition, Subscription Service, Ediscovery Early Stage Venture 550K United States, Nebraska, Lincoln
Flywheel 05 Sep 2014 Automotive, Transportation, Software, Analytics, Information Technology, Mobile, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Content, Web Design, Public Transportation, Web Hosting, Web Development, Blogging Platforms, Energy Management Seed 1M United States, Omaha, Nebraska

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