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Verizon Ventures

Founders Richard Ferrer Terry Evans Jr

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Total investments 168
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 108
Rounds per year 4.94
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 28
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Data
Summary

Verizon Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The venture was found in North America in United States. Verizon Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Basking Ridge.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Verizon Ventures, startups are often financed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Techstars, True Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DCM Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Rhodium.

The overall number of key employees were 7.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Verizon Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Verizon Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Big Data, Machine Learning. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline NantHealth, SparkCognition, BlueKai For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Origin Wireless

Home Health Care
Intelligent Systems
Motion Capture
Security
Sensor
Smart Home
$15M12 Dec 2023 Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

TileDB

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Data Storage
Software
$34M20 Sep 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

nami

Energy Efficiency
Hardware
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$10M23 Mar 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Dreamscape Learn

Digital Entertainment
Virtual Reality
$20M19 Jan 2023 Culver City, California, United States

Caban Systems

Battery
Clean Energy
Energy
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Software
$51M22 Jul 2022 California, United States

Home365

Interior Design
Mobile
Property Insurance
Property Management
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
Real Time
Rental Property
Search Engine
Video
$26M29 Mar 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

AiFi

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
Shopping
Software
$65M11 Mar 2022 San Jose, California, United States

Sanctuary AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$60M02 Mar 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Fan Controlled Football

Sports
$40M12 Jan 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States
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StatusPRO Raises $5.2M in Seed Funding

– StatusPRO is a sports technology and gaming company based in Miami, FL.
– The company raised $5.2m in seed funding.
– The round was led by KB Partners and TitletownTech with participation from Greycroft, Verizon Ventures, Haslam Sports Group, 49ers Enterprises, SC Holdings and additional strategic investors.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the expansion of products aimed at reshaping how players and coaches prepare for games, while defining a new form of engagement between athletes and fans.

HaptX raises another $12M for high-tech gloves, relocates HQ back to Seattle

– HaptX is raising more cash to meet demand for its haptic gloves that help enterprise customers working in virtual reality and robotics.
– The company just landed $12m from existing investors including Verizon Ventures, Mason Avenue Investments, Taylor Frigon Capital Partners, and Upheaval Investments.
– Total funding to date is $31m.
– HaptX released the HaptX Gloves DK2 in January and said all inventory is sold out.
– It will use the funding to launch a second manufacturing run.
– The company is also moving its headquarters to back the Seattle area, where it originally launched before moving to California and will open a new 15,000 square-foot space.

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Total investments 168
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 4.94
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 28
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Origin Wireless

Home Health Care
Intelligent Systems
Motion Capture
Security
Sensor
Smart Home
$15M12 Dec 2023 Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

TileDB

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Data Storage
Software
$34M20 Sep 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

nami

Energy Efficiency
Hardware
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$10M23 Mar 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Dreamscape Learn

Digital Entertainment
Virtual Reality
$20M19 Jan 2023 Culver City, California, United States

Caban Systems

Battery
Clean Energy
Energy
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Software
$51M22 Jul 2022 California, United States

Home365

Interior Design
Mobile
Property Insurance
Property Management
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
Real Time
Rental Property
Search Engine
Video
$26M29 Mar 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

AiFi

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
Shopping
Software
$65M11 Mar 2022 San Jose, California, United States

Sanctuary AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$60M02 Mar 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Fan Controlled Football

Sports
$40M12 Jan 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States
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