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The Startup Factory

Founders Dave Neal

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Total investments 34
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$161K
Portfolio companies 31
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Analytics
  • Hospitality
  • Apps
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Durham. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Social Media, Mobile. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ArchiveSocial

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Upstage Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Quotidian Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Jan Cieslikiewicz Ventures, Upstage Ventures, Triangle Angel Partners.

The current fund was established by Dave Neal.

This The Startup Factory works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2013. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mira

Advertising
Analytics
Big Data
Geospatial
Location Based Services
$1M22 May 2015 New York, New York, United States

AnyCloud

Mobile
SaaS
Social Media
$50K06 Mar 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

CareLuLu

Child Care
Education
$1M01 Nov 2014 Oakland, California, United States

SnapYeti

Media and Entertainment
Photo Sharing
Photography
$50K25 Aug 2014 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Bring Me That

Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Internet
$400K01 Jul 2014 United States, New York

Curagami

Content
E-Commerce
Real Time
$50K01 Mar 2014 Durham, North Carolina, United States

HomeWellness

Construction
Energy
Green Building
$50K16 Sep 2013 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

RocketBolt

Email
Internet
Software
$50K01 Sep 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Brevado

Customer Service
Software
$50K28 Aug 2013 Durham, North Carolina, United States

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Total investments 34
Average round size 161K
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.12

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mira

Advertising
Analytics
Big Data
Geospatial
Location Based Services
$1M22 May 2015 New York, New York, United States

AnyCloud

Mobile
SaaS
Social Media
$50K06 Mar 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

CareLuLu

Child Care
Education
$1M01 Nov 2014 Oakland, California, United States

SnapYeti

Media and Entertainment
Photo Sharing
Photography
$50K25 Aug 2014 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Bring Me That

Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Internet
$400K01 Jul 2014 United States, New York

Curagami

Content
E-Commerce
Real Time
$50K01 Mar 2014 Durham, North Carolina, United States

HomeWellness

Construction
Energy
Green Building
$50K16 Sep 2013 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

RocketBolt

Email
Internet
Software
$50K01 Sep 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Brevado

Customer Service
Software
$50K28 Aug 2013 Durham, North Carolina, United States
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