University Growth Fund
Private equity
Active
Salt Lake City, United States
20
29M
16
2.22
0.20
1
- Areas of investment
Summary
University Growth Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the Salt Lake City. The company was established in North America in United States.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. 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 Cosmetics, SaaS. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Canopy, GrubMarket, Kopari Beauty.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 partakers. Despite the University Growth Fund, startups are often financed by Great Oaks Venture Capital, GGV Capital, EPIC Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are EPIC Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Inc., WI Harper Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tenaya Capital, Nyca Partners, New Enterprise Associates.
We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from University Growth Fund the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 20
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 2.22
- Follow on index
- 0.20
- Investments by industry
- FinTech (7)
- Information Technology (6)
- Software (5)
- Financial Services (5)
- E-Commerce (4) Show 50 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (19)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2022
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 125M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bvddy | 21 Jun 2016 | Social, Mobile Apps, Sports | Seed | 1M | United States, Florida, Miami |
| 06 Aug 2021 | Automotive, Financial Services, FinTech, Consumer | Seed | 7M | United States, Atlanta, Georgia | |
| Gametime | 26 May 2022 | E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps, Mobile Apps, Sports, Photography, Media and Entertainment, iOS, Android | Late Stage Venture | 30M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| UV Angel | 28 Feb 2020 | Furniture, Retail, Health Care, Wellness, Education, Medical | Early Stage Venture | 5M | United States, Michigan, Grand Haven |
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