M25

Total investments

93

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

60

Rounds per year

10.33

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyB2BFood and BeverageHealth CareHospitalSaaSRestaurantsInsurance

Summary

M25 appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. This M25 works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2016. When the investment is from M25 the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the M25, startups are often financed by Techstars, Right Side Capital Management, The Syndicate Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Dundee Venture Capital, The Syndicate Fund, Network Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Innovation Works, Cultivation Capital, Bain Capital Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Branch, Cladwell, SafeChain. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Apps. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Brent Gutwein, Doug Drury, Stuart Gutwein, Victor Gutwein. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
93
Lead investments
5
Exits
3
Rounds per year
10.33
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (25)
  • Health Care (20)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • E-Commerce (8)
  • SaaS (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (76)
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
18M
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.00
Strategy success index
0.10

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