VU Venture Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

90

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

65

Rounds per year

15.00

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageMachine LearningHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMedical DeviceMedical

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/EnterpriseFintechHealthcareProptech/Real Estate
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
200K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
90
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
15.00
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (16)
  • Software (15)
  • Biotechnology (15)
  • Machine Learning (12)
  • Medical (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (60)
  • Australia (4)
  • Kenya (2)
  • Colombia (2)
  • United Kingdom (2)
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Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
7M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Alexandria Labs 01 Jul 2022 Publishing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Content Creators, Data Storage, EBooks Seed 1M United States, New York, New York
AOA 11 Oct 2023 Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics Early Stage Venture 17M United States, Massachusetts, Boston
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