Loup Ventures

Type

Venture Capital, Private equity

Location

Minneapolis, United States

Total investments

27

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

3.86

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSCommunitiesAerospaceAugmented Reality

Summary

Loup Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Minneapolis. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wethos, Rain Neuromorphics, VeriSIM Life. 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 needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, SaaS.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Loup Ventures, startups are often financed by Dynamo, Toba Capital, Rogue Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Toba Capital, Susa Ventures, Stout Street Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Geekdom Fund, Unilever Ventures, Toba Capital.

The current fund was established by Andrew Murphy, Doug Clinton, Gene Munster. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Loup Ventures works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataFintechMobilityRobotics

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
3.86
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • SaaS (5)
  • Augmented Reality (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (25)
  • Canada (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
19M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
2

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bluefire Security Technologies 13 Nov 2002 Software, Cyber Security, Network Security, Security Early Stage Venture 6M United States, Maryland, Baltimore
Racket.com 16 Nov 2021 Internet Radio, Social Media, Audio, Podcast Seed 3M United States, California, Los Angeles
Rain Neuromorphics 23 Aug 2018 Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Seed 5M United States, California, Redwood City

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