Luma Launch
Corporate investor
Active
Santa Monica, United States
37
2M
27
4.11
5
0.24
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Luma Launch is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Santa Monica. The company was established in North America in United States. Luma Launch appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.
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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MindMate, Scoutbound, Purple Squirrel. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Marketing Automation, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Luma Launch performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Luma Launch, startups are often financed by Techstars, Tech Coast Angels, Right Side Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Amplify.LA, Crosscut Ventures, Arena Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Greycroft, Amplify.LA, Social Capital.
The current fund was established by Francis Pollara, Matt Lydecker.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 37
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 4.11
- Follow on index
- 0.24
- Investments by industry
- Software (9)
- Internet (7)
- E-Commerce (6)
- SaaS (6)
- FinTech (5) Show 70 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (34)
- Canada (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 481K
- Group Appearance index
- 0.84
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coldspace | 03 May 2023 | Supply Chain Management, Marketplace, Warehousing | Seed | 3M | Jakarta Raya, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Wize | 28 Jan 2021 | EdTech | Seed | 3M | British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| Zero Grocery | 23 Sep 2020 | Consumer Goods, Delivery Service, Grocery, Waste Management | Seed | 3M | United States, California, Berkeley |
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