VentureSouth

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Greenville, United States

Total investments

163

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

76

Rounds per year

16.30

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.52

Exits

9

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsSaaSManufacturingMedicalLife SciencePharmaceutical

Summary

In 2014 was created VentureSouth, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Greenville. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the VentureSouth, startups are often financed by South Carolina Research Authority, Windspeed Ventures, Sunbridge Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Palmetto Angel 2014 Fund, Wolfpack Investor Network, Tao Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by South Carolina Research Authority, General Motors Ventures, Tao Capital Partners.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Manufacturing. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Baebies, Verdeeco, Seurat Technologies. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The fund was created by Charlie Banks, Matt Dunbar, Paul Clark, Paul Clark. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from VentureSouth is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This VentureSouth works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Check size
250K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
163
Lead investments
15
Exits
9
Rounds per year
16.30
Follow on index
0.52
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (39)
  • Health Care (35)
  • Software (30)
  • SaaS (21)
  • Medical (21)
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Investments by region
  • United States (160)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
12M
Group Appearance index
0.38
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Emrgy 11 Apr 2023 Environmental Engineering Early Stage Venture 18M United States, Atlanta, Georgia
Plantd 04 Jan 2022 Building Material, Industrial Manufacturing, Environmental Engineering Seed United States, North Carolina, Durham
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