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Sandusky Ventures

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 1.56
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Analytics
  • Marketplace
  • CleanTech
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Steelhead Composites

Aerospace
Automotive
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Industrial
Manufacturing
Product Design
$4M14 Aug 2020 Golden, Colorado, United States

Marketplace
SaaS
Software
Subscription Service
$5M15 Nov 2019 Boise, Idaho, United States

WastePlace

CleanTech
Marketplace
Recycling
Sustainability
Waste Management
17 Jul 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

IdealSpot

Analytics
Big Data
Commercial Real Estate
Geospatial
Location Based Services
Market Research
Real Estate
Retail
$1M01 Sep 2016 Austin, Texas, United States

Umbel

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
Publishing
SaaS
$3M03 Feb 2014 Austin, Texas, United States

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Total investments 14
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.56
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.43

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Steelhead Composites

Aerospace
Automotive
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Industrial
Manufacturing
Product Design
$4M14 Aug 2020 Golden, Colorado, United States

Marketplace
SaaS
Software
Subscription Service
$5M15 Nov 2019 Boise, Idaho, United States

WastePlace

CleanTech
Marketplace
Recycling
Sustainability
Waste Management
17 Jul 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

IdealSpot

Analytics
Big Data
Commercial Real Estate
Geospatial
Location Based Services
Market Research
Real Estate
Retail
$1M01 Sep 2016 Austin, Texas, United States

Umbel

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
Publishing
SaaS
$3M03 Feb 2014 Austin, Texas, United States
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