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Luma Launch

Founders Francis Pollara Laurent Grill Matt Lydecker

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Total investments 36
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 4.50
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
  • FinTech
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gemist

E-Commerce
Jewelry
$3M02 Feb 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Trust & Will

FinTech
Internet
Legal
$15M17 Nov 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Zero Grocery

Consumer Goods
Delivery Service
Grocery
Waste Management
$3M23 Sep 2020 Berkeley, California, United States

Gemist

E-Commerce
Jewelry
$800K15 Jun 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Revl

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Machine Learning
Motion Capture
Robotics
Software
Video
Wearables
$8M25 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

XCLAIM

B2B
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Legal Tech
$4M07 Jan 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Trust & Will

FinTech
Internet
Legal
$6M17 Dec 2019 San Diego, California, United States

Balloon

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Mobile
SaaS
$2M11 Dec 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Boulevard

B2B
Internet
SaaS
Software
$11M04 Nov 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States

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Total investments 36
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 4.50
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gemist

E-Commerce
Jewelry
$3M02 Feb 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Trust & Will

FinTech
Internet
Legal
$15M17 Nov 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Zero Grocery

Consumer Goods
Delivery Service
Grocery
Waste Management
$3M23 Sep 2020 Berkeley, California, United States

Gemist

E-Commerce
Jewelry
$800K15 Jun 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Revl

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Machine Learning
Motion Capture
Robotics
Software
Video
Wearables
$8M25 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

XCLAIM

B2B
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Legal Tech
$4M07 Jan 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Trust & Will

FinTech
Internet
Legal
$6M17 Dec 2019 San Diego, California, United States

Balloon

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Mobile
SaaS
$2M11 Dec 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Boulevard

B2B
Internet
SaaS
Software
$11M04 Nov 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States
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