Wintrust Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Rosemont, United States

Total investments

30

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

22

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

4

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRecruitingSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducationBig DataMarketplaceFashion

Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Rosamond.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Wintrust Ventures works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Wintrust Ventures, startups are often financed by OCA Ventures, Woodside O'Brien, Lakewest Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OCA Ventures, Woodside O'Brien, Listen Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Woodside O'Brien, OCA Ventures, KCRise Fund.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Gesture, Page Vault, SmartPay Solutions. 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Auctions, SaaS.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States, Illinois, Chicago

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
1
Exits
4
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Big Data (7)
  • E-Commerce (5)
  • Fashion (5)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (30)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
145K
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AISPECO 01 Jan 2020 Seed Vilniaus Apskritis, Vilnius, Lithuania
Monica+Andy 08 Feb 2018 Children, Fashion, Wearables, Organic Early Stage Venture United States, Illinois, Chicago
Tractor Zoom 03 Oct 2022 Big Data, AgTech, Database Early Stage Venture 5M United States, Iowa
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