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Sputnik ATX

Founders Joe Merrill Oksana Mindyuk Malysheva

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Total investments 108
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$298K
Portfolio companies 67
Rounds per year 18.00
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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

BrightPay Health Corp.

$100K11 Aug 2022 Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Swoovy

Dating
Employee Benefits
Internet
Non Profit
SaaS
Social Impact
$100K31 Jul 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Chi'lantro BBQ

Restaurants
$100K01 May 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Yornest

Apps
$500K25 Mar 2022 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

AsisVisa

Legal Tech
Software
Web Development
$100K25 Jan 2022 New York, New York, United States

Handraiser

Information Technology
Software
$100K01 Jan 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Backtracks

Audio
Internet
Music
Podcast
$200K20 Nov 2021 Austin, Texas, United States
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 108
Average round size 298K
Rounds per year 18.00
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.12

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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

BrightPay Health Corp.

$100K11 Aug 2022 Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Swoovy

Dating
Employee Benefits
Internet
Non Profit
SaaS
Social Impact
$100K31 Jul 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Chi'lantro BBQ

Restaurants
$100K01 May 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Yornest

Apps
$500K25 Mar 2022 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

AsisVisa

Legal Tech
Software
Web Development
$100K25 Jan 2022 New York, New York, United States

Handraiser

Information Technology
Software
$100K01 Jan 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Backtracks

Audio
Internet
Music
Podcast
$200K20 Nov 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

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