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VU Venture Partners

Founders J. Skyler Fernandes

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Total investments 93
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 67
Rounds per year 15.50
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical
Summary

In 2019 was created VU Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

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

This organization was formed by J. Skyler Fernandes. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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. 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 country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Wegrow-app

Information Technology
Software
$8M18 Sep 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Healx

Artificial Intelligence
Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$47M01 Aug 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Orchard Robotics

$3M27 Mar 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Isaac Health

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$5M25 Jan 2024 New York, New York, United States

AOA

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$17M11 Oct 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dayta AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Data Mining
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
Software
Text Analytics
$5M11 Jul 2023 New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Hadean

Cloud Computing
Developer Tools
Operating Systems
$5M23 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Fintor

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
$6M06 Oct 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

Nutromics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Sensor
Wearables
$14M08 Sep 2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Total investments 93
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 15.50
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Wegrow-app

Information Technology
Software
$8M18 Sep 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Healx

Artificial Intelligence
Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$47M01 Aug 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Orchard Robotics

$3M27 Mar 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Isaac Health

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$5M25 Jan 2024 New York, New York, United States

AOA

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$17M11 Oct 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dayta AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Data Mining
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
Software
Text Analytics
$5M11 Jul 2023 New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Hadean

Cloud Computing
Developer Tools
Operating Systems
$5M23 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Fintor

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
$6M06 Oct 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

Nutromics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Sensor
Wearables
$14M08 Sep 2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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