Maryland Venture Fund

Total investments

89

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

63

Rounds per year

3.07

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

16

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducationMedical DeviceSecurityMedical

Summary

Maryland Venture Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Columbia.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Maryland Venture Fund, startups are often financed by Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, Highland Capital Partners, Grotech Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Vertical Group, Grotech Ventures, The New Markets Growth Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Vertical Group, The New Markets Growth Fund, TCP Venture Capital.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Maryland Venture Fund works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Diagnostics, Analytics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Optoro, Fidelis Cybersecurity, BrainScope Company. The fund has 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.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
89
Lead investments
12
Exits
16
Rounds per year
3.07
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (27)
  • Software (25)
  • Health Care (24)
  • Medical (16)
  • Analytics (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (88)
  • South Korea (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
61M
Group Appearance index
0.58
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.41
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
3CLogic 04 Mar 2014 Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Telecommunications, Customer Service, Call Center Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Maryland
QxBranch 25 Jun 2018 Software, Analytics, Big Data, Insurance, Quantum Computing Early Stage Venture 4M United States, District of Columbia, Washington

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