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UL Ventures

Founders Simin Zhou

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 2.88
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Analytics
  • Biotechnology
Summary

UL Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The main department of described VC is located in the Northbrook. The company was established in North America in United States. UL Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this UL Ventures works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

The current fund was established by Simin Zhou.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the UL Ventures, startups are often financed by Samsung NEXT, PivotNorth Capital, Paladin Capital Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Statkraft Ventures, S2G Ventures, Capital Midwest Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, Spero Ventures, SOSV.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, Data Integration. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Identify3D, Voltaiq, SkySpecs. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kyndi

Artificial Intelligence
Life Science
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Software
$34M10 Aug 2021 California, United States

Aurora Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Developer Tools
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Software
$23M22 Sep 2020 Tel Aviv District

Enduvo

Delivery
Home Health Care
Software
$4M15 Jul 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

SkySpecs

Aerospace
Analytics
Asset Management
Drones
Energy Efficiency
Productivity Tools
Renewable Energy
Robotics
Wind Energy
$17M21 Dec 2019 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Kyndi

Artificial Intelligence
Life Science
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Software
$20M10 Jul 2019 California, United States

Enduvo

Delivery
Home Health Care
Software
26 Jun 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Massive Bio

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Genetics
Machine Learning
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$2M02 May 2019 New York, United States

Brodmann17

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Software
$12M06 Mar 2019 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

KenSci

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Software
$22M07 Feb 2019 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 23
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 2.88
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kyndi

Artificial Intelligence
Life Science
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Software
$34M10 Aug 2021 California, United States

Aurora Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Developer Tools
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Software
$23M22 Sep 2020 Tel Aviv District

Enduvo

Delivery
Home Health Care
Software
$4M15 Jul 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

SkySpecs

Aerospace
Analytics
Asset Management
Drones
Energy Efficiency
Productivity Tools
Renewable Energy
Robotics
Wind Energy
$17M21 Dec 2019 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Kyndi

Artificial Intelligence
Life Science
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Software
$20M10 Jul 2019 California, United States

Enduvo

Delivery
Home Health Care
Software
26 Jun 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Massive Bio

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Genetics
Machine Learning
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$2M02 May 2019 New York, United States

Brodmann17

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Software
$12M06 Mar 2019 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

KenSci

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Software
$22M07 Feb 2019 Seattle, Washington, United States
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