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UCLA Ventures

Founders Michael Silton

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.57
Lead investments 2
Exits 3
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Analytics
  • Health Care
  • E-Commerce
  • Biotechnology
  • Predictive Analytics
Summary

UCLA Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Los Angeles.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the UCLA Ventures, startups are often financed by Tech Coast Angels, Quest Venture Partners, Wavemaker Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Wavemaker Partners, Vivo Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by WS Investments, Versant Ventures, Reimagined Ventures.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this UCLA Ventures works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Big Data, Analytics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Neural Analytics, Trendalytics Innovation Labs.

This organization was formed by Michael Silton. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FanFood

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Mobile Apps
Sports
$2M06 Mar 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Nimble Collective

Animation
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Content
Film Production
Internet
Media and Entertainment
PaaS
Virtual Reality
$8M18 Feb 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

Water Planet

Oil and Gas
$8M16 Jun 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Tribogenics

Advanced Materials
Health Care
Industrial
Manufacturing
Recycling
$11M15 Jun 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Trendalytics Innovation Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
E-Commerce
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Retail Technology
SaaS
15 Jan 2015 New York, United States

The Bouqs Company

Delivery
E-Commerce
Retail
$6M26 Jun 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Vicept Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
$16M30 Jun 2010 Pennsylvania, United States

Kythera Biopharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$30M24 Jul 2006 California, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 0.57
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 2
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FanFood

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Mobile Apps
Sports
$2M06 Mar 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Nimble Collective

Animation
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Content
Film Production
Internet
Media and Entertainment
PaaS
Virtual Reality
$8M18 Feb 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

Water Planet

Oil and Gas
$8M16 Jun 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Tribogenics

Advanced Materials
Health Care
Industrial
Manufacturing
Recycling
$11M15 Jun 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Trendalytics Innovation Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
E-Commerce
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Retail Technology
SaaS
15 Jan 2015 New York, United States

The Bouqs Company

Delivery
E-Commerce
Retail
$6M26 Jun 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Vicept Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
$16M30 Jun 2010 Pennsylvania, United States

Kythera Biopharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$30M24 Jul 2006 California, United States
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