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Root Ventures

Founders Avidan Ross

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Total investments 97
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 48
Rounds per year 8.82
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 3
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Analytics
  • Robotics
Summary

In 2013 was created Root Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Root Ventures, startups are often financed by SOSV, Y Combinator, Jackson Square Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SOSV, Haystack, Spark Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SOSV, HAX, Spark Capital.

The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Root Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Root Ventures works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The current fund was established by Avidan Ross. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise, Machine Learning. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Seismic, Nordsense, Instrumental. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Trieve

Information Technology
Internet
$3M11 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Crux OCM

Artificial Intelligence
Energy
Energy Management
Machine Learning
Oil and Gas
Software
$17M14 Aug 2024 Calgary, Canada

Nullify

Cyber Security
Developer Tools
Software
$3M07 Mar 2024 -

Quilter

Electronics
Software
$10M13 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

ApertureData

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$5M25 Apr 2023 Los Gatos, California, United States

Nautilus Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Marine Transportation
Shipping
Software
$11M16 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States

Zed Industries

Creative Agency
Enterprise Applications
Software
$12M15 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Latent Technology

Animation
Gaming
PC Games
Virtual Reality
$2M06 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Privacy Dynamics

Cloud Data Services
Consumer Software
Government
Insurance
Location Based Services
Privacy
Software
Transportation
$5M01 Dec 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States
News
CruxOCM Raises $9M Total in Venture Financing; Latest Led by Bullpen Capital

– CruxOCM is the pioneer of robotic industrial process automation (RIPA™) for control room operations.
– The company has raised $6M in venture financing to fuel growth.
– The recent round was led by Bullpen Capital, with participation from Angular Ventures, Root Ventures, Golden Ventures, Cendana Capital and Industry Ventures.
– The capital will be used to grow the company’s product lines, increase the efficiency of its installation process, and continue expanding its team across North America.

Construction robotics firm Dusty raises $16.5M

– Dusty Robotics, a construction robotics company, raised $16.5m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Canaan Partners and featured NextGen Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, Root Ventures and Cantos Ventures.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and product line.

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Total investments 97
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 8.82
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Trieve

Information Technology
Internet
$3M11 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Crux OCM

Artificial Intelligence
Energy
Energy Management
Machine Learning
Oil and Gas
Software
$17M14 Aug 2024 Calgary, Canada

Nullify

Cyber Security
Developer Tools
Software
$3M07 Mar 2024 -

Quilter

Electronics
Software
$10M13 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

ApertureData

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$5M25 Apr 2023 Los Gatos, California, United States

Nautilus Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Marine Transportation
Shipping
Software
$11M16 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States

Zed Industries

Creative Agency
Enterprise Applications
Software
$12M15 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Latent Technology

Animation
Gaming
PC Games
Virtual Reality
$2M06 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Privacy Dynamics

Cloud Data Services
Consumer Software
Government
Insurance
Location Based Services
Privacy
Software
Transportation
$5M01 Dec 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States
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