Rugged Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.
The fund was created by Dave Lerner. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.
Opposing the other organizations, this Rugged Ventures works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2013. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.
The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Locket, KidPass, AdYapper Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Advertising, Education.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 9-10 participants. Despite the Rugged Ventures, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Techstars, Right Side Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ff Venture Capital, Timothy Chi, Thomas Lehrman. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, Quotidian Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital.
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Notable deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Zinier | $8M | 15 Jan 2018 | California, United States | ||
Viro Media | $2M | 22 Mar 2017 | Seattle, Washington, United States | ||
KidPass | $800K | 28 Sep 2016 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Fraud.net | 01 Feb 2016 | New York, New York, United States | |||
Astro | $3M | 24 Jun 2015 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Locket | $3M | 10 Feb 2015 | San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Keen Home | $1M | 29 Oct 2014 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Paintzen | $1M | 16 Oct 2014 | New York, New York, United States | ||
AdYapper | $1M | 05 Sep 2013 | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
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Latest deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Zinier | $8M | 15 Jan 2018 | California, United States | ||
Viro Media | $2M | 22 Mar 2017 | Seattle, Washington, United States | ||
KidPass | $800K | 28 Sep 2016 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Fraud.net | 01 Feb 2016 | New York, New York, United States | |||
Astro | $3M | 24 Jun 2015 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Locket | $3M | 10 Feb 2015 | San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Keen Home | $1M | 29 Oct 2014 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Paintzen | $1M | 16 Oct 2014 | New York, New York, United States | ||
AdYapper | $1M | 05 Sep 2013 | Chicago, Illinois, United States |