RPM Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Ann Arbor, United States

Total investments

94

Average round size

35M

Portfolio companies

49

Rounds per year

3.92

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

15

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsFinanceSaaSInsuranceInsurTech

Summary

RPM Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Ann Arbor. The company was established in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Social Finance (SoFi), Hippo Insurance, ShareThis. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Automotive, Financial Services. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from RPM Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. This RPM Ventures works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the RPM Ventures, startups are often financed by Intercept Ventures, Inspiration Ventures, DCM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Frontier Venture Capital, Illinois Ventures, DCM Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Frontier Venture Capital, Comcast Ventures, West Capital Advisors.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseEcommerceMobilityFintechInsurtech Show 1 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 88400000
Fund raised date
2021-02-11

Analytics

Total investments
94
Lead investments
14
Exits
15
Rounds per year
3.92
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Software (25)
  • Financial Services (24)
  • FinTech (24)
  • Insurance (14)
  • Internet (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (88)
  • Australia (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
268M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
2.36
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Findigs 13 Jun 2024 Software Early Stage Venture 27M United States, New York, New York
SoFi 12 Sep 2012 Financial Services, FinTech, Wealth Management, Life Insurance Early Stage Venture 77M United States, California, San Francisco
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