University System of Maryland - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni

Total investments

27

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

0.75

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyAquacultureSoftwareConsumer GoodsFitnessHealth CareSaaS3D TechnologyMedical DeviceTherapeutics

Summary

In 1988 was created University System of Maryland, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Baltimore. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the University System of Maryland, startups are often financed by SeedInvest, National Science Foundation, Gamma3. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TEDCO, Virginia Tech Carilion (VTC) Innovation Fund, UM ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UM ventures, National Institutes of Health, Abell Foundation.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 50 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Retrium, Gemstone Biotherapeutics We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Robotics, Consumer Goods. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get 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.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
7
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.75
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (7)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Therapeutics (3)
  • SaaS (3)
  • Software (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (27)
Peak activity year
2019

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Group Appearance index
0.78

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
miRecule 28 May 2021 Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma Seed 5M United States, Maryland
Pathotrak 18 May 2020 Biotechnology, Food Delivery Seed 1M United States, Maryland

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