The Yield Lab

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Saint Louis, United States

Total investments

66

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

50

Rounds per year

6.60

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyFood ProcessingMachine LearningCleanTechAgTechSustainabilityAgricultureFarming

Summary

In 2014 was created The Yield Lab, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the St Louis. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Thad Simons.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Yield Lab, startups are often financed by SOSV, NXTP Labs, BioGenerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BioGenerator, St. Louis Arch Angels, SOSV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Missouri Technology Corporation, Cultivation Capital, St. Louis Arch Angels.

When the investment is from The Yield Lab the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ImpactVision, GroGuru, S4. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are AgTech, Food and Beverage.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AgricultureFoodtech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 20000000
Fund raised date
2023-05-04

Analytics

Total investments
66
Lead investments
5
Exits
3
Rounds per year
6.60
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Agriculture (40)
  • Biotechnology (25)
  • Farming (22)
  • AgTech (21)
  • Software (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (38)
  • Brazil (4)
  • Argentina (10)
  • Canada (2)
  • Ireland (5)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
672K
Group Appearance index
0.74
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Seedz 10 Jan 2021 Information Technology, Information Services, Marketing, Agriculture Early Stage Venture Acre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Spotta 15 Dec 2023 Hospitality, Housekeeping Service Early Stage Venture 4M England, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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