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University Venture Fund

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 1.09
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 12
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • Therapeutics
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

University Venture Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Salt Lake City.

The top activity for fund was in 2009. Opposing the other organizations, this University Venture Fund works on 18 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the University Venture Fund, startups are often financed by vSpring Capital, Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, Sanderling Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are vSpring Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, Sanderling Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Signal Peak Ventures, DFJ, vSpring Capital.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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 Therapeutics, Pharmaceutical. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Galvanize, Barosense, Lineagen.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Beereaders Inc

Education
$3M18 Apr 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Beereaders Inc

Education
$2M21 Mar 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Algramo

Logistics
Retail Technology
Supply Chain Management
$9M13 May 2021 Chile, Chile

Vutility

Energy Efficiency
Finance
Natural Resources
Renewable Energy
Smart Cities
$11M28 Apr 2020 Sandy, Utah, United States

Lineagen

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$12M26 Jan 2015 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Galvanize

Communities
Coworking
Education
Venture Capital
$18M18 Jun 2014 Denver, Colorado, United States

Lineagen

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$3M18 Dec 2013 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Workfront

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Marketing
Professional Services
Project Management
SaaS
Software
$17M31 Oct 2012 Lehi, Utah, United States

Coherex Medical

Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
$16M13 Mar 2012 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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Total investments 25
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.09
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Beereaders Inc

Education
$3M18 Apr 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Beereaders Inc

Education
$2M21 Mar 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Algramo

Logistics
Retail Technology
Supply Chain Management
$9M13 May 2021 Chile, Chile

Vutility

Energy Efficiency
Finance
Natural Resources
Renewable Energy
Smart Cities
$11M28 Apr 2020 Sandy, Utah, United States

Lineagen

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$12M26 Jan 2015 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Galvanize

Communities
Coworking
Education
Venture Capital
$18M18 Jun 2014 Denver, Colorado, United States

Lineagen

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$3M18 Dec 2013 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Workfront

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Marketing
Professional Services
Project Management
SaaS
Software
$17M31 Oct 2012 Lehi, Utah, United States

Coherex Medical

Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
$16M13 Mar 2012 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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