Origin Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

117

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

67

Rounds per year

4.68

Lead investments

24

Follow on index

0.43

Exits

14

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHuman ResourcesSaaSEnterprise SoftwareMarketplaceMarketing

Summary

Origin Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Advertising, Mobile. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Grubhub, Avant, DialogTech. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Origin Ventures, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Lichter Investments, Lerer Hippeau. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pritzker Group Venture Capital, OCA Ventures, Chicago Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Serra Ventures, OCA Ventures.

The fund was created by Bruce N. Barron, Steven Miller. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Origin Ventures works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Origin Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailEcommerceCommunity/Social networkFuture of Work
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
250K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 80000000

Analytics

Total investments
117
Lead investments
24
Exits
14
Rounds per year
4.68
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Software (39)
  • SaaS (26)
  • Enterprise Software (24)
  • Information Technology (22)
  • E-Commerce (16)
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Investments by region
  • United States (105)
  • Canada (6)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
87M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.83
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Burq 29 Jun 2021 Internet, Software, Delivery Seed 4M United States, California, San Francisco
Vivrelle 03 Nov 2022 Fashion, Jewelry Early Stage Venture 35M United States, New York, New York

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