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Material Impact Fund

Founders Adam Sharkawy Carmichael Roberts

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Total investments 41
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 4.56
Lead investments 9
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Biotechnology
  • Robotics
  • Nanotechnology
  • Software
Summary

Material Impact Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The current fund was established by Adam Sharkawy, Carmichael Roberts. The overall number of key employees were 2.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Manufacturing. 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 specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Orbion Space Technology, Fusion Coolant Systems, NextGen Jane.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Material Impact Fund, startups are often financed by The Amherst Fund, The Frankel Fund, Taylor Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, Tekfen Ventures, RKS Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, Yamaha Motor Co.,, Tekfen Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GALY

Biotechnology
$33M03 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Tierra Biosciences, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$11M12 Mar 2024 San Leandro, California, United States

Amperesand

Infrastructure
Power Grid
$12M07 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Talus Renewables

Energy
Renewable Energy
$22M02 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Sonera Magnetics

Consumer Electronics
Sensor
$11M12 Sep 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

DetraPel

Consumer Goods
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
$7M11 Sep 2023 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

Nohbo

Beauty
Personal Health
Wellness
05 Jun 2023 Melbourne, Florida, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$40M02 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$34M01 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States
News
6K Raises $51M in Series C Funding

– 6K Energy is a battery developer based in Hayward, CA.
– Company raised $45m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Volta Energy Technologies with participation from Catalus Capital, S Cap/Prithvi Ventures, Anzu Partners, Launch Capital, Material Impact and RKS Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to complete its Battery Development Center of Excellence.

Debut Biotech Raises $22.6M in Series A Funding

– Debut Biotech is a San Diego, CA-based developer of a biomanufacturing platform harnessing cell-free enzymes.
– The company raised $22.6m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Material Impact with participation from Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, Fine Structure Ventures, ACVC Ventures, Humboldt Fund, Cantos Ventures, as well as existing investors including KdT Ventures.
– The new capital will be used to commercialize ingredients developed from its proprietary cell-free biomanufacturing platform.

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Total investments 41
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 4.56
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.37
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GALY

Biotechnology
$33M03 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Tierra Biosciences, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$11M12 Mar 2024 San Leandro, California, United States

Amperesand

Infrastructure
Power Grid
$12M07 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Talus Renewables

Energy
Renewable Energy
$22M02 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Sonera Magnetics

Consumer Electronics
Sensor
$11M12 Sep 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

DetraPel

Consumer Goods
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
$7M11 Sep 2023 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

Nohbo

Beauty
Personal Health
Wellness
05 Jun 2023 Melbourne, Florida, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$40M02 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$34M01 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States
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