The University of Chicago Innovation Fund
17
268K
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0.18
- Areas of investment
Summary
The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the The University of Chicago Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by MergeLane, National Science Foundation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are M25, Wasson Enterprise, SymphonyAlpha Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by M25, Aphelion Capital, Wakestream Ventures.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ExplORer Surgical. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Clinical Trials, Impact Investing.
The important activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 17
- Lead investments
- 9
- Follow on index
- 0.18
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (7)
- Health Care (7)
- Medical (6)
- Therapeutics (3)
- Health Diagnostics (3) Show 20 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (16)
- Spain (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 492K
- Group Appearance index
- 0.12
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantitative Insights | 01 May 2011 | Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical | Seed | 50K | United States, Illinois, Chicago |
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