NYU Innovation Venture Fund
Venture Capital
Active
New York, United States
28
3M
25
2.15
0.11
4
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
NYU Innovation Venture Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Techstars, Stephano Kim. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GV, David Tisch, BoxGroup. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SeedInvest, SOSV, HAX.
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 no specific favorite 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kinvolved, BioDigital, OpenTrons Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Video, Machine Learning.
Comparing to the other companies, this NYU Innovation Venture Fund performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
The current fund was established by Frank Rimalovski. The overall number of key employees were 2.
Investor highlights
- Stage focus
- Check size
- 100K — 500K
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 3M
Analytics
- Total investments
- 28
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 2.15
- Follow on index
- 0.11
- Investments by industry
- Software (8)
- Biotechnology (6)
- Machine Learning (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (3)
- Developer APIs (3) Show 60 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (26)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 100M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.75
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Strategy success index
- 0.20
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Competera | 25 Oct 2021 | E-Commerce, Software, Retail, Information Technology, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics | Seed | 1M | England, Bristol, United Kingdom |
| Kinvolved | 01 Aug 2015 | Impact Investing, EdTech, Education | Seed | United States, New York, New York | |
| Prime Discoveries | 07 Aug 2019 | Biotechnology, Medical, Biopharma | Seed | United States, New York, New York |
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