Venture University

Total investments

49

Average round size

821K

Portfolio companies

43

Rounds per year

8.17

Follow on index

0.04

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsBiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechMobileFood and BeverageMachine LearningHealth CareAerospace

Summary

Venture University appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2018. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2018.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FLOWER CO, 3TEN8, CreditStacks. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, Machine Learning. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Venture University, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, UpHonest Capital, Social Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VU Venture Partners, Women Angels, UpHonest Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Knockout Capital, Yukon Partners, Y Combinator.

The current fund was established by J. Skyler Fernandes. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
8.17
Follow on index
0.04
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Machine Learning (6)
  • Food and Beverage (5)
  • Health Care (5)
  • FinTech (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (34)
  • Japan (2)
  • China (2)
  • Colombia (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
10

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