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SURGE Accelerator

Founders Kirk Coburn

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Total investments 41
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$117K
Portfolio companies 36
Rounds per year 3.73
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Energy
  • Oil and Gas
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
Summary

SURGE Accelerator is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Houston.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WatrHub, Infinite Composites Technologies, Deep Imaging Technologies. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Energy Efficiency. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Kirk Coburn.

Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this SURGE Accelerator performs on 24 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the SURGE Accelerator, startups are often financed by Houston Angel Network, Mercury Fund, Start-Up Chile. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mercury Fund, Houston Angel Network, VentureWell. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mercury Fund, Texas Halo Fund, OCAST.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Autonomous Marine Systems

Marine Technology
National Security
Robotics
$500K01 Sep 2015 United States, " United States"}

SEE Forge

Enterprise Software
Mobile
SaaS
$362K27 Feb 2014 Houston, Texas, United States

Petrabytes

Analytics
Energy
Software
17 Feb 2014 Houston, Texas, United States

10Six

Electronics
01 Feb 2014 New York, New York, United States

Molecule Software

Energy
Enterprise Software
Finance
Software
$775K19 Dec 2013 Houston, Texas, United States

Optimitive

Energy Efficiency
Information Technology
Software
$1M26 Nov 2013 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain

RunTitle

Marketplace
Oil and Gas
21 Feb 2013 Austin, Texas, United States

Skynet Labs

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Oil and Gas
Software
$31K01 Feb 2013 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Molecule Software

Energy
Enterprise Software
Finance
Software
$480K24 Aug 2012 Houston, Texas, United States

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Total investments 41
Average round size 117K
Rounds per year 3.73
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.46

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Autonomous Marine Systems

Marine Technology
National Security
Robotics
$500K01 Sep 2015 United States, " United States"}

SEE Forge

Enterprise Software
Mobile
SaaS
$362K27 Feb 2014 Houston, Texas, United States

Petrabytes

Analytics
Energy
Software
17 Feb 2014 Houston, Texas, United States

10Six

Electronics
01 Feb 2014 New York, New York, United States

Molecule Software

Energy
Enterprise Software
Finance
Software
$775K19 Dec 2013 Houston, Texas, United States

Optimitive

Energy Efficiency
Information Technology
Software
$1M26 Nov 2013 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain

RunTitle

Marketplace
Oil and Gas
21 Feb 2013 Austin, Texas, United States

Skynet Labs

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Oil and Gas
Software
$31K01 Feb 2013 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Molecule Software

Energy
Enterprise Software
Finance
Software
$480K24 Aug 2012 Houston, Texas, United States
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