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Listen Ventures

Founders Jeff Cantalupo

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Total investments 53
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 3.79
Lead investments 7
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.45
Exits 6
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Consumer Goods
  • Mobile
  • Financial Services
  • Education
Summary

Listen Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from Listen Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Listen Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015.

The current fund was established by Jeff Cantalupo. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Calm. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Subscription Service, Fashion. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Listen Ventures, startups are often financed by Jumpstart Ventures, Lakewest Venture Partners, Mark Cuban. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Jumpstart Ventures, Wintrust Ventures, The Pritzker Organization. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wintrust Ventures, Jumpstart Ventures, University Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sigo Seguros

Auto Insurance
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Property Insurance
$10M10 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

iAsk Ai

Information Technology
Search Engine
Software
28 Feb 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sigo Seguros

Auto Insurance
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Property Insurance
$5M11 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Dame Products

Consumer Goods
Sex Tech
Toys
$7M21 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

Black Buffalo

Consumer
Consumer Goods
Tobacco
$30M08 Aug 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Fable

Consumer Goods
Manufacturing
$6M28 Jul 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Tally Labs

Blockchain
$12M18 May 2022 -

Sigo Seguros

Auto Insurance
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Property Insurance
$5M07 Apr 2022 New York, New York, United States

Rise Gardens

Food Processing
Organic Food
$9M19 Jul 2021 Illinois, United States
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Rise Gardens grows with $9M Series A to help anyone be an indoor farmer

– Rise Gardens, an indoor, smart hydroponic company, raised $9m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by TELUS Ventures and joined by True Ventures, Amazon Alexa Fund, and Listen Ventures.
– The company has a total of $13m in venture-backed investments since Rise was founded in 2017.

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Total investments 53
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 3.79
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.45
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sigo Seguros

Auto Insurance
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Property Insurance
$10M10 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

iAsk Ai

Information Technology
Search Engine
Software
28 Feb 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sigo Seguros

Auto Insurance
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Property Insurance
$5M11 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Dame Products

Consumer Goods
Sex Tech
Toys
$7M21 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

Black Buffalo

Consumer
Consumer Goods
Tobacco
$30M08 Aug 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Fable

Consumer Goods
Manufacturing
$6M28 Jul 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Tally Labs

Blockchain
$12M18 May 2022 -

Sigo Seguros

Auto Insurance
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Property Insurance
$5M07 Apr 2022 New York, New York, United States

Rise Gardens

Food Processing
Organic Food
$9M19 Jul 2021 Illinois, United States
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