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Venture University

Founders J. Skyler Fernandes

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Total investments 48
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$774K
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 12.00
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Food and Beverage
  • Health Care
  • FinTech
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ICW

Analytics
Compliance
Software
Supply Chain Management
04 Jan 2021 Hong Kong

Varda

Aerospace
Manufacturing
Product Design
23 Dec 2020 -

Oxygen

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
21 Dec 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

DASH Systems

Aerospace
Air Transportation
Freight Service
Logistics
Mechanical Engineering
Shipping
$8M16 Dec 2020 California, United States

Lora DiCarlo

Marketing
$3M05 Oct 2020 Bend, Oregon, United States

Finless Foods

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
16 Sep 2020 Berkeley, California, United States

Intelage

Logistics
Software
Supply Chain Management
28 Jul 2020 Bellevue, Washington, United States

maude

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Health Care
Personal Health
Wellness
27 Jul 2020 New York, United States

Bear Flag Robotics

Agriculture
AgTech
Industrial Automation
Predictive Analytics
Robotics
08 Jul 2020 California, United States

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Total investments 48
Average round size 774K
Rounds per year 12.00
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ICW

Analytics
Compliance
Software
Supply Chain Management
04 Jan 2021 Hong Kong

Varda

Aerospace
Manufacturing
Product Design
23 Dec 2020 -

Oxygen

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
21 Dec 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

DASH Systems

Aerospace
Air Transportation
Freight Service
Logistics
Mechanical Engineering
Shipping
$8M16 Dec 2020 California, United States

Lora DiCarlo

Marketing
$3M05 Oct 2020 Bend, Oregon, United States

Finless Foods

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
16 Sep 2020 Berkeley, California, United States

Intelage

Logistics
Software
Supply Chain Management
28 Jul 2020 Bellevue, Washington, United States

maude

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Health Care
Personal Health
Wellness
27 Jul 2020 New York, United States

Bear Flag Robotics

Agriculture
AgTech
Industrial Automation
Predictive Analytics
Robotics
08 Jul 2020 California, United States
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