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Midwest Venture Alliance

Founders Patricia Brasted Richard West Stan Brannan

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.19
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Scheduling
  • Construction
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Productivity Tools
  • Software
Summary

In 2005 was created Midwest Venture Alliance, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Wichita.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Midwest Venture Alliance, startups are often financed by MPM Capital, Avalon Ventures, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Triompf, Techstars, Middleland Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Triompf, Square 1 Bank, Oxford Finance LLC.

The current fund was established by Patricia Brasted, Richard West, Stan Brannan.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bulu Group, Aratana Therapeutics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Fitness, Machine Learning. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Midwest Venture Alliance works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Grit Virtual

Construction
Predictive Analytics
Productivity Tools
Scheduling
Software
$840K26 Feb 2018 Wichita, Kansas, United States

Bulu Group

E-Commerce
Ediscovery
Fitness
Lifestyle
Marketplace
Nutrition
Personal Health
Subscription Service
$3M07 May 2014 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Aratana Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$12M31 Jan 2013 Kansas, United States

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Total investments 3
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.19
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Grit Virtual

Construction
Predictive Analytics
Productivity Tools
Scheduling
Software
$840K26 Feb 2018 Wichita, Kansas, United States

Bulu Group

E-Commerce
Ediscovery
Fitness
Lifestyle
Marketplace
Nutrition
Personal Health
Subscription Service
$3M07 May 2014 Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Aratana Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$12M31 Jan 2013 Kansas, United States
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