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ward.ventures

Founders David Ward

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 1.50
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Sports
  • Fitness
  • Apps
  • Building Maintenance
Summary

ward.ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Dallas. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from ward.ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

This organization was formed by David Ward. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the ward.ventures, startups are often financed by IrishAngels, TACK Ventures, Sovereign's Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Elysian Park Ventures, KCRise Fund, Jazz Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by KCRise Fund, IrishAngels, Elysian Park Ventures.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Basketball, E-Commerce. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ShotTracker, Freeletics, Site 1001.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rechat

Database
Search Engine
Software
18 Jun 2019 Dallas, Texas, United States

Freeletics

Apps
Fitness
Sports
$45M04 Dec 2018 Bavaria

ShotTracker

Analytics
Basketball
Software
Sports
$10M01 Mar 2018 Kansas, United States

Site 1001

Artificial Intelligence
Asset Management
Building Maintenance
Commercial Real Estate
Green Building
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
SaaS
Smart Building
Software
$6M11 Jul 2017 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

ShotTracker

Analytics
Basketball
Software
Sports
$5M19 Oct 2016 Kansas, United States

Site 1001

Artificial Intelligence
Asset Management
Building Maintenance
Commercial Real Estate
Green Building
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
SaaS
Smart Building
Software
$5M22 Sep 2016 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Rechat

Database
Search Engine
Software
$2M25 Feb 2016 Dallas, Texas, United States

J. Rieger & Co.

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Government
Retail
01 Feb 2014 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.50
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rechat

Database
Search Engine
Software
18 Jun 2019 Dallas, Texas, United States

Freeletics

Apps
Fitness
Sports
$45M04 Dec 2018 Bavaria

ShotTracker

Analytics
Basketball
Software
Sports
$10M01 Mar 2018 Kansas, United States

Site 1001

Artificial Intelligence
Asset Management
Building Maintenance
Commercial Real Estate
Green Building
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
SaaS
Smart Building
Software
$6M11 Jul 2017 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

ShotTracker

Analytics
Basketball
Software
Sports
$5M19 Oct 2016 Kansas, United States

Site 1001

Artificial Intelligence
Asset Management
Building Maintenance
Commercial Real Estate
Green Building
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
SaaS
Smart Building
Software
$5M22 Sep 2016 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Rechat

Database
Search Engine
Software
$2M25 Feb 2016 Dallas, Texas, United States

J. Rieger & Co.

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Government
Retail
01 Feb 2014 Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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