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Plus Eight Equity Fund LP

Founders John Acquaviva Richie Hawtin

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 1.88
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Music
  • Software Engineering
  • Big Data
  • Machine Learning
  • Internet of Things
Summary

Plus Eight Equity Fund LP appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Plus Eight Equity Fund LP, startups are often financed by YUL Ventures, Real Ventures, Anges Quebec. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are YUL Ventures, Warner Music Group, Sony Innovation Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Flybridge Capital Partners, Union Square Ventures, True Ventures.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LANDR, Splice. 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 Internet, Media and Entertainment.

The fund was created by John Acquaviva, Richie Hawtin. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Plus Eight Equity Fund LP is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VersusGame

$25M15 Jun 2022 California, United States

Overplay

Gaming
Media and Entertainment
$1M15 Jul 2021 New York, New York, United States

VersusGame

$4M28 Jan 2021 California, United States

Endel

Mobile
Music
Personal Health
Productivity Tools
Smart Cities
Smart Home
Software Engineering
$5M23 Sep 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lynq Technologies

Communication Hardware
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
$6M28 Jan 2020 New York, New York, United States

LANDR

Big Data
Machine Learning
Music
Software Engineering
$15M16 Jul 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Endel

Mobile
Music
Personal Health
Productivity Tools
Smart Cities
Smart Home
Software Engineering
$1M27 Sep 2018 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

SubPac

Audio
Electronics
31 Aug 2018 Palo Alto, California, United States

Lynq Technologies

Communication Hardware
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
$1M19 Jun 2017 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 15
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 1.88
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.27
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VersusGame

$25M15 Jun 2022 California, United States

Overplay

Gaming
Media and Entertainment
$1M15 Jul 2021 New York, New York, United States

VersusGame

$4M28 Jan 2021 California, United States

Endel

Mobile
Music
Personal Health
Productivity Tools
Smart Cities
Smart Home
Software Engineering
$5M23 Sep 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lynq Technologies

Communication Hardware
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
$6M28 Jan 2020 New York, New York, United States

LANDR

Big Data
Machine Learning
Music
Software Engineering
$15M16 Jul 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Endel

Mobile
Music
Personal Health
Productivity Tools
Smart Cities
Smart Home
Software Engineering
$1M27 Sep 2018 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

SubPac

Audio
Electronics
31 Aug 2018 Palo Alto, California, United States

Lynq Technologies

Communication Hardware
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
$1M19 Jun 2017 New York, New York, United States
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