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Riot Ventures

Founders Stephen Marcus Will Coffield

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Total investments 29
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$47M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 4.14
Lead investments 3
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 1
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Technology
Summary

Riot Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Stephen Marcus, Will Coffield. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from Riot Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Precious Metals, Point of Sale. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some 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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sentenai, Simbe Robotics, System1 Biosciences. 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 Riot Ventures, startups are often financed by Lowe's Ventures, GV, Future Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vijay Pradeep, Tiger Global Management, TCV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Valo Ventures, TechNexus Venture Collaborative.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Karman Industries

Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing
$4M19 Sep 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Kindo

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Software
$20M15 Jul 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

True Anomaly

Aerospace
Machinery Manufacturing
Space Travel
$100M12 Dec 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Sift

Machine Learning
Software
$7M07 Nov 2023 El Segundo, California, United States

Kindo

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Software
$7M05 Sep 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Alloy Enterprises

Industrial
Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
$26M17 May 2023 Massachusetts, United States

OpenEnvoy

Finance
FinTech
Software
$15M03 May 2023 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

True Anomaly

Aerospace
Machinery Manufacturing
Space Travel
$17M06 Apr 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Rugged Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$9M23 Mar 2022 Houston, Texas, United States

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Total investments 29
Average round size 47M
Rounds per year 4.14
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Karman Industries

Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing
$4M19 Sep 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Kindo

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Software
$20M15 Jul 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

True Anomaly

Aerospace
Machinery Manufacturing
Space Travel
$100M12 Dec 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Sift

Machine Learning
Software
$7M07 Nov 2023 El Segundo, California, United States

Kindo

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Software
$7M05 Sep 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Alloy Enterprises

Industrial
Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
$26M17 May 2023 Massachusetts, United States

OpenEnvoy

Finance
FinTech
Software
$15M03 May 2023 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

True Anomaly

Aerospace
Machinery Manufacturing
Space Travel
$17M06 Apr 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Rugged Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$9M23 Mar 2022 Houston, Texas, United States
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