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Origin Ventures

Founders Bruce N. Barron Steven N. Miller

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Total investments 114
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 66
Rounds per year 4.56
Lead investments 24
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 14
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cloverleaf.me

Data Visualization
Human Resources
Information Technology
$7M27 Mar 2024 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Controlrooms.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$10M29 Aug 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

pieFi

Blockchain
Finance
Social
$4M17 Jan 2023 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Kodex

Blockchain
01 Jan 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

TiLT

Business Development
Employee Benefits
Human Resources
Software
$10M02 Dec 2022 Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Vivrelle

Fashion
Jewelry
$35M03 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

Kodex

Blockchain
$2M01 Nov 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

15Five

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$52M21 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Fountain

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Recruiting
$100M15 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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Anthill Raises $3M in Seed Funding

– Anthill is a Chicago, IL-based talent management platform designed for the deskless workforce.
– The company raised $3m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Rethink Education with participation from Origin Ventures, BBG Ventures, The Fund, JFF (Jobs for the Future), and more.
– The new investment will be used to continue to expand operations and its business reach.

Lumanu Raises $12M in Series A Funding

– Lumanu, an Oakland, CA-based company that provides creators with tools for invoicing, payments, and collaboration, raised $12m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Origin Ventures with participation from Alumni Venture Group, Gaingles and 500 Startups.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand its business reach.

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Total investments 114
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 4.56
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cloverleaf.me

Data Visualization
Human Resources
Information Technology
$7M27 Mar 2024 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Controlrooms.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$10M29 Aug 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

pieFi

Blockchain
Finance
Social
$4M17 Jan 2023 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Kodex

Blockchain
01 Jan 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

TiLT

Business Development
Employee Benefits
Human Resources
Software
$10M02 Dec 2022 Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Vivrelle

Fashion
Jewelry
$35M03 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

Kodex

Blockchain
$2M01 Nov 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

15Five

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$52M21 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Fountain

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Recruiting
$100M15 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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