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NYU Innovation Venture Fund

Founders Frank Rimalovski

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 2.15
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 4
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Developer APIs
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RillaVoice

Computer
Information Services
Software
$3M01 Dec 2022 New York, New York, United States

Sabai Design

Furniture
Manufacturing
Retail
16 Aug 2022 New York, New York, United States

Baton Media

Media and Entertainment
Music Streaming
Social Media Management
17 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States

Clarifai

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Developer APIs
Enterprise
Facial Recognition
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Software
Speech Recognition
Visual Search
$60M15 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

My Wellbeing

Health Care
02 Aug 2021 New York, New York, United States

Revelio Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$4M29 Jul 2021 New York, New York, United States

Wrapbook

FinTech
InsurTech
$3M25 Aug 2020 New York, New York, United States

Pepper

E-Commerce
Fashion
Retail
Women's
$2M10 Apr 2020 New York, New York, United States

Prime Discoveries

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
07 Aug 2019 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 28
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 2.15
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RillaVoice

Computer
Information Services
Software
$3M01 Dec 2022 New York, New York, United States

Sabai Design

Furniture
Manufacturing
Retail
16 Aug 2022 New York, New York, United States

Baton Media

Media and Entertainment
Music Streaming
Social Media Management
17 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States

Clarifai

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Developer APIs
Enterprise
Facial Recognition
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Software
Speech Recognition
Visual Search
$60M15 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

My Wellbeing

Health Care
02 Aug 2021 New York, New York, United States

Revelio Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$4M29 Jul 2021 New York, New York, United States

Wrapbook

FinTech
InsurTech
$3M25 Aug 2020 New York, New York, United States

Pepper

E-Commerce
Fashion
Retail
Women's
$2M10 Apr 2020 New York, New York, United States

Prime Discoveries

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
07 Aug 2019 New York, New York, United States
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