Sandusky Ventures

Total investments

14

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

1.56

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareAnalyticsSaaSBig DataMarketplaceProduct DesignCleanTechIndustrialData Visualization

Summary

Sandusky Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The venture was found in North America in United States. Sandusky Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Austin.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Rocket Dollar, Umbel, Phunware, Inc.. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Media, Market Research. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This Sandusky Ventures works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Sandusky Ventures, startups are often financed by Central Texas Angel Network, Fraser McCombs Capital, Maxima Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are James Finnigan, Henry Yoshida, Central Texas Angel Network. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sports Investment Partners, Knight Enterprise Fund, Cielo Private Equity.

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Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
0
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.56
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • SaaS (4)
  • Analytics (3)
  • Marketplace (3)
  • CleanTech (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
101M
Group Appearance index
0.43
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Steelhead Composites 14 Aug 2020 Automotive, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Product Design, CleanTech, Industrial, Clean Energy Seed 4M United States, Colorado, Golden

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