University Ventures

Total investments

70

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

42

Rounds per year

5.83

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechRecruitingFinanceEdTechHigher EducationTrainingEducationUniversities

Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Galvanize, CampusLogic, Examity. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Finance, FinTech. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 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. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the University Ventures, startups are often financed by Yucatan Rock Ventures, VilCap Investments, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Markets Venture Partners, Learn Capital, Zoma Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Markets Venture Partners, Zoma Capital, Thrive Capital.

This University Ventures works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
70
Lead investments
15
Exits
10
Rounds per year
5.83
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Education (44)
  • Higher Education (23)
  • EdTech (15)
  • Financial Services (12)
  • FinTech (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (64)
  • Cyprus (3)
  • Canada (2)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.65
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CollegeVine 01 Apr 2019 Higher Education, Education Early Stage Venture 24M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Yellowbrick 15 Sep 2017 Educational and Training Services (B2C), Career Planning, EdTech, Higher Education, Media and Entertainment, Universities Seed 3M United States, New York, New York

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