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M25

Founders Brent Gutwein Doug Drury Stuart Gutwein Victor Gutwein

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Total investments 92
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 59
Rounds per year 10.22
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 3
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Redi.Health

B2C
Health Care
$14M28 Feb 2024 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Workshop

Software
$12M16 Nov 2023 Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Playbite

Gaming
Online Games
$1M30 Oct 2023 St Louis, Missouri, United States

TitleWise

Document Management
Productivity Tools
Property Management
Real Estate
$1M14 Jul 2023 Clarksville, Indiana, United States

TitleWise

Document Management
Productivity Tools
Property Management
Real Estate
$855K08 Jun 2023 Clarksville, Indiana, United States

Axuall

Health Care
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
$20M31 May 2023 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Entrée

Apps
Food and Beverage
Restaurants
$2M15 Mar 2023 -

Elate

Computer
Productivity Tools
Software
$4M13 Feb 2023 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Authenticx

Compliance
Customer Service
Health Care
Software
$20M17 Jan 2023 Indiana, United States
News
Cybersecurity monitoring and response startup Blumira raises $10.3M

– Blumira, a cybersecurity startup based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced that it raised $10.3 million in a series A round led by Mercury with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, M25, Array Ventures, and others.
– The investment, which brings Blumira’s total raised to $12.9 million to date, will be used to grow the company’s security information and event management platform and double the size of its team to 80 employees within the next year.
– As enterprises embrace digital transformation during the pandemic, malicious actors are taking note — and advantage, in many cases. The world now faces roughly over 100,000 malicious websites and 10,000 malicious files every day. And ransomware has become prolific, despite the fact that 75% of companies infected with ransomware are running up-to-date endpoint protection.

After raising $10M, Breeze breathes fresh air into a stagnant disability insurance market

– Breeze, a digital platform for disability and critical illness insurance, raised $10m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Link Ventures and joined by Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, M25, Fiat Ventures and Invest Nebraska.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and product offerings.

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Total investments 92
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 10.22
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 3

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Redi.Health

B2C
Health Care
$14M28 Feb 2024 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Workshop

Software
$12M16 Nov 2023 Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Playbite

Gaming
Online Games
$1M30 Oct 2023 St Louis, Missouri, United States

TitleWise

Document Management
Productivity Tools
Property Management
Real Estate
$1M14 Jul 2023 Clarksville, Indiana, United States

TitleWise

Document Management
Productivity Tools
Property Management
Real Estate
$855K08 Jun 2023 Clarksville, Indiana, United States

Axuall

Health Care
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
$20M31 May 2023 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Entrée

Apps
Food and Beverage
Restaurants
$2M15 Mar 2023 -

Elate

Computer
Productivity Tools
Software
$4M13 Feb 2023 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Authenticx

Compliance
Customer Service
Health Care
Software
$20M17 Jan 2023 Indiana, United States
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