Listen Ventures
50
6M
28
3.85
7
0.44
6
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 50
- Lead investments
- 7
- Exits
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 3.85
- Follow on index
- 0.44
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (21)
- Consumer Goods (7)
- Education (7)
- Mobile (6)
- Financial Services (6) Show 70 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (48)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 97M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.78
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interior Define | 08 Mar 2018 | E-Commerce, Furniture, Interior Design | Early Stage Venture | 15M | United States, Illinois, Chicago |
| Sigo Seguros | 11 Jul 2023 | Financial Services, Mobile, Insurance, InsurTech, Property Insurance, Auto Insurance | Seed | 5M | United States, New York, New York |
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