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Sputnik ATX

Founders Joe Merrill Oksana Mindyuk Malysheva

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Total investments 119
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$346K
Portfolio companies 70
Rounds per year 17.00
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Mobile Apps
  • Financial Services
Summary

Sputnik ATX appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2017. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Austin.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Sputnik ATX, startups are often financed by Texas Venture Labs, Shasta Ventures, Next Coast Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yeoman's Capital, Youbi Capital, Transform Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Watertower Ventures, Quake Capital Partners, Next Coast Ventures.

This organization was formed by Joe Merrill, Oksana Malysheva. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Sputnik ATX works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 56 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Sputnik ATX the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile Advertising, Financial Services. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vertalo, Newchip.

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News
Green & Transformative Tech Startup FuelGems Raises $900K

– GreenTech startup FuelGems announced the completion of a successful funding round that raised a total of $928,690.
– The fundraising was carried out through Wefunder, with primary investment from Sputnik ATX.
– FuelGems’ revolutionary fuel additive uses nanoparticles to transform the operation of diesel and gasoline-powered engines.
– Fuel efficiency also rises by up to 9%.
– FuelGems’ additive is cost-effective, adding just 2 cents onto the cost of a gallon of gasoline, and requires only a microdose of 1-5 grams for 260 gallons of fuel.
– The company forecasts $400+ million revenue by year 6 of operations, thanks to widespread public concern about the impact of vehicle fumes on climate change and public health.

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Total investments 119
Average round size 346K
Rounds per year 17.00
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.15

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rex Academy

Education
Higher Education
$100K02 Feb 2024 Dallas, Texas, United States

Handraise

Customer Service
Software
Web Development
$6M12 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Afforai

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$550K01 Nov 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Afforai

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$100K01 Jul 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Shmoody

Health Care
Wellness
$1M01 Jun 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Savimbo

Environmental Consulting
Sustainability
$400K28 Mar 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Prospect1

Software
$100K06 Feb 2023 Panama City, Panamá, Panama

Zendata

01 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Mercurial AI

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Health Care
Machine Learning
$25K01 Sep 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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