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Vast Ventures

Founders Doug Chertok

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Total investments 91
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 73
Rounds per year 4.33
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 23
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Medical
  • Advertising
Summary

Vast Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The current fund was established by Doug Chertok. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Vast Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, BDMI, SOSV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Lerer Hippeau, First Round Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Founders Fund.

This Vast Ventures works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Zocdoc, Ginkgo BioWorks, Sweetgreen Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, SaaS. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Florence

Health Care
Software
$60M21 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

PatchRx

Data Integration
Data Visualization
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Software
$8M30 Aug 2023 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Base

Service Industry
$500K25 Aug 2023 Miami, Florida, United States

Florence

Health Care
Software
$20M30 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States

Juno Medical

Family
Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$12M08 Dec 2022 New York, New York, United States

Ophelos

Financial Services
FinTech
$6M29 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Clicoh

Delivery Service
Logistics
Mobile Apps
Transportation
$25M23 May 2022 Cordoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Source

Clinical Trials
Health Care
$3M19 Apr 2022 -

Black Crow AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Marketing
Predictive Analytics
$25M31 Mar 2022 New York, New York, United States
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Juno Medical Raises $5.4M in Seed Funding

– Juno Medical, a New York-based primary care company, raised $5.4m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Vast Ventures with participation from Atento Capital, Company Ventures, humbition, RareBreed Ventures and Lafayette Square.
– The company intends to use the funds to launch its Brooklyn location, expand its virtual care services and price transparency capabilities, and to hire new team members across the business.

Fresh out of YC, Houm raises $8M to improve the home rental and sales market in LatAm

– Houm, a Latin American real estate platform, raised $8m in seed funding.
– The current funding round had no lead investor but includes Y Combinator, Goodwater Ventures, OneVC, Vast VC, Liquid2 and Myelin.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its operations in Latin America.

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Total investments 91
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 4.33
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Florence

Health Care
Software
$60M21 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

PatchRx

Data Integration
Data Visualization
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Software
$8M30 Aug 2023 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Base

Service Industry
$500K25 Aug 2023 Miami, Florida, United States

Florence

Health Care
Software
$20M30 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States

Juno Medical

Family
Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$12M08 Dec 2022 New York, New York, United States

Ophelos

Financial Services
FinTech
$6M29 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Clicoh

Delivery Service
Logistics
Mobile Apps
Transportation
$25M23 May 2022 Cordoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Source

Clinical Trials
Health Care
$3M19 Apr 2022 -

Black Crow AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Marketing
Predictive Analytics
$25M31 Mar 2022 New York, New York, United States
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