VGO Ventures

Total investments

3

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.43

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsAutonomous VehiclesConsumer ElectronicsSmart BuildingSmart HomeGreen Building

Summary

VGO Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. 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 Vinay Menda. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The average startup value when the investment from VGO Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2015.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the VGO Ventures, startups are often financed by lool ventures, Reshape, Motus Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Reshape, Motus Ventures, lool ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Motus Ventures, Wicklow Capital.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sensibo, Civil Maps, Doorman Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Smart Home, Developer APIs. 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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
3
Lead investments
0
Rounds per year
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (1)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (1)
  • Software (1)
  • Robotics (1)
  • Internet (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2015

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
16M
Group Appearance index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Doorman 02 Jun 2015 Logistics, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Developer APIs Seed 1M United States, California, San Francisco

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