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West Capital Advisors

Founders Madeleine Ludlow Mark Richey

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 2.91
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.53
Exits 9
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Analytics
  • Health Care
  • Apps
Summary

West Capital Advisors is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

This organization was formed by Madeleine Ludlow, Mark Richey. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the West Capital Advisors, startups are often financed by Draper Triangle, Shasta Ventures, Mercury Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Draper Triangle, Shasta Ventures, Fifth Third Bancorp. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Draper Triangle, Shasta Ventures, Serra Ventures.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this West Capital Advisors works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2014.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Poppin, 4moms, ShareThis. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, Health Care. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HubLogix

B2B
E-Commerce
SaaS
08 Jul 2016 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Aquilon Energy Services

Energy
Management Information Systems
Software
$13M06 Jul 2016 Houston, Texas, United States

4moms

Hardware
Robotics
Software
16 May 2016 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

OnShift

Cloud Computing
Health Care
Hospital
SaaS
Software
$18M13 Apr 2016 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Label Insight

Analytics
Big Data
Nutrition
SaaS
$10M11 Feb 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Poppin

Apps
B2B
Construction
Furniture
Internet
Software
26 Jan 2016 New York, New York, United States

4moms

Hardware
Robotics
Software
29 Sep 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Label Insight

Analytics
Big Data
Nutrition
SaaS
28 Aug 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Oversight

Information Technology
Predictive Analytics
Software
16 Jun 2015 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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Total investments 32
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 2.91
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.53
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HubLogix

B2B
E-Commerce
SaaS
08 Jul 2016 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Aquilon Energy Services

Energy
Management Information Systems
Software
$13M06 Jul 2016 Houston, Texas, United States

4moms

Hardware
Robotics
Software
16 May 2016 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

OnShift

Cloud Computing
Health Care
Hospital
SaaS
Software
$18M13 Apr 2016 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Label Insight

Analytics
Big Data
Nutrition
SaaS
$10M11 Feb 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Poppin

Apps
B2B
Construction
Furniture
Internet
Software
26 Jan 2016 New York, New York, United States

4moms

Hardware
Robotics
Software
29 Sep 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Label Insight

Analytics
Big Data
Nutrition
SaaS
28 Aug 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Oversight

Information Technology
Predictive Analytics
Software
16 Jun 2015 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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