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Union Grove Venture Partners

Founders Greg Bohlen John A. Spilman V Patrick Cairns

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$48M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 1.67
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 4
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Analytics
  • Food Processing
  • Food and Beverage
  • Marketplace
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

In 2014 was created Union Grove Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chapel Hill.

The fund was created by Greg Bohlen, John A. Spilman V, Patrick Cairns. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. This Union Grove Venture Partners works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Union Grove Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Mayfield Fund, Uncork Capital, Inventus Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mayfield Fund, Uncork Capital, Shea Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Uncork Capital, Menlo Ventures, Mayfield Fund.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Descartes Labs, Appcelerator, SpotHero. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 fund investment industries, there are Marketplace, Health Care.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hero Bread

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Nutrition
$15M02 May 2023 -

Oliver Space

Furniture
Interior Design
Subscription Service
$36M09 Aug 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Kuleana

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$18M23 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Forte

Blockchain
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
eSports
Gaming
Video Games
$185M12 May 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Descartes Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Developer Platform
Geospatial
Image Recognition
Internet
Machine Learning
$20M11 Oct 2019 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Samba TV

Advertising
Analytics
Apps
Consumer Electronics
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
Software
Video
$30M19 Jun 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Progyny

Fertility
Health Care
Medical
$14M01 Jul 2016 New York, New York, United States

Poshmark

E-Commerce
Fashion
Marketplace
Peer to Peer
$25M21 Apr 2015 Redwood City, California, United States
News
Forte Raises $185M Series A at $1B Valuation Led by Griffin Gaming Partners

– Forte, an organization building a blockchain-based economic platform for video games, announced it has raised $185M in Series A funding led by Griffin Gaming Partners.
– New and existing investors including Union Grove Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, and Canaan also participated in the round.
– The Series A funding values the organization at $1B.
– Funds will be used to accelerate the development of its end-to-end blockchain platform, which lets developers create fungible and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and build scalable token-based game economies.
– Forte’s economic technology aims to address the growing misalignment between game developers, players, and fans.

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Total investments 15
Average round size 48M
Rounds per year 1.67
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hero Bread

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Nutrition
$15M02 May 2023 -

Oliver Space

Furniture
Interior Design
Subscription Service
$36M09 Aug 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Kuleana

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$18M23 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Forte

Blockchain
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
eSports
Gaming
Video Games
$185M12 May 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Descartes Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Developer Platform
Geospatial
Image Recognition
Internet
Machine Learning
$20M11 Oct 2019 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Samba TV

Advertising
Analytics
Apps
Consumer Electronics
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
Software
Video
$30M19 Jun 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Progyny

Fertility
Health Care
Medical
$14M01 Jul 2016 New York, New York, United States

Poshmark

E-Commerce
Fashion
Marketplace
Peer to Peer
$25M21 Apr 2015 Redwood City, California, United States
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