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ManchesterStory Group

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Total investments 44
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 6.29
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Insurance
  • InsurTech
  • Financial Services
  • Finance
  • FinTech
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the West Des Moines. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cowbell Cyber Inc, PLNAR, Betterview. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Insurance, Cyber Security. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the ManchesterStory Group, startups are often financed by Winklevoss capital, Troy Capital Partners, Silverton Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Nationwide Ventures, West Loop Ventures, Vectr. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak HC/FT, FINTOP Capital.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vero Intelligence

Finance
Financial Services
Insurance
10 Oct 2024 -

XP Health

Artificial Intelligence
Employee Benefits
Health Care
Machine Learning
$33M12 Sep 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Rainwalk Technology

Insurance
InsurTech
Pet
SaaS
$4M23 Apr 2024 Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Wisedocs

Health Care
Medical
$10M30 Jan 2024 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

OpenLoop

Health Care
Medical
Service Industry
Staffing Agency
$15M16 Mar 2023 Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Goose Insurance Services

Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$4M16 Feb 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Joyn Insurance

Commercial Insurance
Insurance
Risk Management
$17M12 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Trailblazer Technology

Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
Insurance
InsurTech
16 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

XP Health

Artificial Intelligence
Employee Benefits
Health Care
Machine Learning
$17M28 Sep 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States
News
Just Insure Raises $8M in Funding

– Just Insure is a Los Angeles, CA-based pay-per-mile insurance technology company that uses telematics to reward safe drivers and reduce insurer bias.
– Company raised $8m in funding.
– The round was led by CrossCut Ventures, ManchesterStory and Western Technology Investments.
– The new investment will be used to scale operations and its product offering as it looks to expand into additional states.

reThought Raises $15.5M in Series A Funding

– reThought Insurance, a Broomfield, Colo.-based tech-enabled MGA, closed a $15.5m Series A funding.
– The round was led by Telstra Ventures with participation from Hudson Structured Capital Management and ArcTern Ventures as welll as existing venture funds Menlo Ventures, ManchesterStory and Streamlined Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand sales team, technology, research and development and growth in the flood insurance market.

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Total investments 44
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 6.29
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.34
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vero Intelligence

Finance
Financial Services
Insurance
10 Oct 2024 -

XP Health

Artificial Intelligence
Employee Benefits
Health Care
Machine Learning
$33M12 Sep 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Rainwalk Technology

Insurance
InsurTech
Pet
SaaS
$4M23 Apr 2024 Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Wisedocs

Health Care
Medical
$10M30 Jan 2024 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

OpenLoop

Health Care
Medical
Service Industry
Staffing Agency
$15M16 Mar 2023 Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Goose Insurance Services

Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$4M16 Feb 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Joyn Insurance

Commercial Insurance
Insurance
Risk Management
$17M12 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Trailblazer Technology

Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
Insurance
InsurTech
16 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

XP Health

Artificial Intelligence
Employee Benefits
Health Care
Machine Learning
$17M28 Sep 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States
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