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PJC

Founders David Martirano Gina Raimondo Sean Marsh

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Total investments 137
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 80
Rounds per year 5.96
Lead investments 20
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 19
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Financial Services
  • Enterprise Software
  • Analytics
Summary

PJC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the PJC, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, CVP, Venture Capital Fund of New England. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Egan-Managed Capital, Borealis Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venture Capital Fund of New England, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Egan-Managed Capital.

The top activity for fund was in 2013. Comparing to the other companies, this PJC performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Video, Health Care. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fidelis Cybersecurity, Sittercity, Power Assure.

This organization was formed by David Martirano, Sean Marsh. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AceUp

Education
Human Resources
Software
$22M12 Sep 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cohora

Cosmetics
Fashion
Marketing
Travel
$2M10 Sep 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ruli

$2M24 Jun 2024 Austin, Texas, United States

FINDMINE

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Automation/Workflow Software
Business/Productivity Software
E-Commerce
Internet
Machine Learning
Retail
Retail Technology
Social/Platform Software
$8M30 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Dripos

Consumer Software
Restaurants
SaaS
Software
$11M24 Apr 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Grapevine

Social Entrepreneurship
$1M08 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

Nova

Artificial Intelligence
Content
01 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

Diligent Pharma

Computer
Industrial Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical
$8M15 May 2023 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Caktus AI

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Software
Education
Software
20 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States
News
Machinery Partner Raises $4.5M in Seed Funding

– Machinery Partner, a Boston, MA-based company offering novel procurement, financing and support for small businesses needing heavy machinery, raised $4.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by One Way Ventures (from Boston and focused on backing immigrant founders) and Euclid Ventures (from the West Coast and focused on B2B marketplaces), with participation from PJC and Techstars Ventures, as well as angel investors including early Uber employees, dozens of founders of Venture backed companies, and Nicole Glaros, the Chief Investment Strategy Officer of Techstars.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate sales as well as technology development.

Kudos, with its cotton-based, eco-friendly diaper, soaks up $2.4 million in seed funding

– Kudos, a startup that is looking to reinvent the disposable diaper with sustainability in mind, announced the close of a $2.4m seed round of financing.
– Investors include Foundation Capital, XFund, PJC, Precursor Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, SV Angel, Underscore VC, Alpha Bridge Ventures, April Underwood and more.
– Kudos is the first and only disposable baby diaper to earn the cotton natural seal from Cotton Inc. for having 100% cotton touching the baby’s skin instead of plastic.
– They’re also made with four times more plant-based materials than the top disposable diaper out there.

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Total investments 137
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 5.96
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 19
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AceUp

Education
Human Resources
Software
$22M12 Sep 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cohora

Cosmetics
Fashion
Marketing
Travel
$2M10 Sep 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ruli

$2M24 Jun 2024 Austin, Texas, United States

FINDMINE

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Automation/Workflow Software
Business/Productivity Software
E-Commerce
Internet
Machine Learning
Retail
Retail Technology
Social/Platform Software
$8M30 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Dripos

Consumer Software
Restaurants
SaaS
Software
$11M24 Apr 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Grapevine

Social Entrepreneurship
$1M08 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

Nova

Artificial Intelligence
Content
01 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

Diligent Pharma

Computer
Industrial Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical
$8M15 May 2023 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Caktus AI

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Software
Education
Software
20 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States
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