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NCT Ventures

Founders Bill Frank Rich Langdale

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Total investments 47
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 2.14
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 8
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Health Care
  • Analytics
Summary

NCT Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Columbus. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the NCT Ventures, startups are often financed by Detroit Venture Partners, JumpStart Inc., Drive Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rev1 Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners, LOUD Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rev1 Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners, BIP Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Information Technology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Olive, ClearSaleing, BringShare. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some 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.

The current fund was established by Bill Frank, Rich Langdale.

When the investment is from NCT Ventures the average startup value is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this NCT Ventures works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aver

Database Software
Enterprise Systems (Healthcare)
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Software
$27M09 Jan 2020 Columbus, Ohio, United States

SHARE Mobility

Autonomous Vehicles
Communities
Fleet Management
Ride Sharing
SaaS
Smart Cities
Transportation
01 Nov 2019 Columbus, Ohio, United States

OROS

Fashion
Lifestyle
Wearables
$5M04 Oct 2018 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

SafeChain

Blockchain
FinTech
Government
Real Estate
$3M25 Jun 2018 Columbus, Ohio, United States

PriorAuthNow

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$10M15 May 2018 Columbus, Ohio, United States

SafeChain

Blockchain
FinTech
Government
Real Estate
26 Dec 2017 Columbus, Ohio, United States

PopCom

Retail
Software
Vending and Concessions
$600K20 Dec 2017 Columbus, Ohio, United States

inTouch

Information Technology
iOS
Location Based Services
Marketing
Software
16 Nov 2017 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

JadeTrack

Analytics
Energy
Energy Management
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
Sustainability
$100K14 Sep 2017 Columbus, Ohio, United States

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Total investments 47
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 2.14
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.53

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aver

Database Software
Enterprise Systems (Healthcare)
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Software
$27M09 Jan 2020 Columbus, Ohio, United States

SHARE Mobility

Autonomous Vehicles
Communities
Fleet Management
Ride Sharing
SaaS
Smart Cities
Transportation
01 Nov 2019 Columbus, Ohio, United States

OROS

Fashion
Lifestyle
Wearables
$5M04 Oct 2018 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

SafeChain

Blockchain
FinTech
Government
Real Estate
$3M25 Jun 2018 Columbus, Ohio, United States

PriorAuthNow

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$10M15 May 2018 Columbus, Ohio, United States

SafeChain

Blockchain
FinTech
Government
Real Estate
26 Dec 2017 Columbus, Ohio, United States

PopCom

Retail
Software
Vending and Concessions
$600K20 Dec 2017 Columbus, Ohio, United States

inTouch

Information Technology
iOS
Location Based Services
Marketing
Software
16 Nov 2017 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

JadeTrack

Analytics
Energy
Energy Management
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
Sustainability
$100K14 Sep 2017 Columbus, Ohio, United States
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