Western New York Impact Investment Fund

Total investments

11

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

8

Rounds per year

1.57

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.27

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetRecruitingFood and BeverageFood ProcessingSocial NetworkManufacturingConstructionSocial EntrepreneurshipClinical TrialsProduct Research

Summary

Western New York Impact Investment Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Buffalo.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Western New York Impact Investment Fund, startups are often financed by The Pearse Lyons Accelerator, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Dairy Farmers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New York Ventures, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SomaDetect. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Internet of Things.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
11
Lead investments
3
Rounds per year
1.57
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (3)
  • Construction (3)
  • Food and Beverage (2)
  • Food Processing (2)
  • Internet (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.55

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arbol 21 Jun 2023 Financial Services, Communities, Education Seed 350K United States, New York, Buffalo

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