Wakestream Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Grand Rapids, United States

Total investments

68

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

47

Rounds per year

9.71

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSAppsEnterprise SoftwareMedical DeviceHardwareConsumer Electronics

Summary

Wakestream Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Grand Rapids. The company was established in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Benefit Mobile, GINKGOTREE, Shoulder Innovations.

The fund was created by Rick DeVos. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Wakestream Ventures, startups are often financed by Grand Angels, Techstars, Harvard Business School Angels Chicago. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Start Garden, Invest Detroit, Michigan Angel Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by eLab Ventures, Lux Capital, Invest Detroit.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This Wakestream Ventures works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Check size
150K — 500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
68
Lead investments
9
Exits
8
Rounds per year
9.71
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Software (19)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • Health Care (14)
  • E-Commerce (7)
  • SaaS (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (68)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
9M
Group Appearance index
0.76
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.38

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Modalyst 01 Jul 2014 E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology, B2B, Retail Technology, Sales, SaaS, Marketplace, Fashion Seed United States, California, San Francisco
Sportsman Tracker 30 Jan 2015 Software, Information Technology, Apps, Service Industry, Hunting Early Stage Venture 950K United States, Michigan, Grand Rapids
The Angel Bridge 04 Feb 2022 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Seed Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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