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YEI Innovation Fund

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 1.33
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • SaaS
  • Medical Device
  • Personal Health
  • Health Diagnostics
Summary

YEI Innovation Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The main department of described VC is located in the New Haven. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the YEI Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Connecticut Innovations. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Connecticut Innovations, Bulldog Innovation Group LLC, Zach Weinberg. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Connecticut Innovations, Uncork Capital, Spring Mountain Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Therapeutics, Education. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Trinity Mobile Networks, Panorama Education, IsoPlexis. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2014. This YEI Innovation Fund works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tamarin Health

Blockchain
Health Care
Personal Health
$880K01 Sep 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Junzi Kitchen

Catering
Food Processing
Hospitality
Restaurants
$2M15 Jan 2017 New York, New York, United States

Umi Kitchen

Food Delivery
Sharing Economy
$1M26 Sep 2016 New York, United States

Rally

Collaborative Consumption
Events
Logistics
Music Venues
SaaS
Sports
Transportation
$1M26 Jan 2015 New York, United States

Wellinks

Fitness
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
Personal Health
Wearables
Wellness
$100K14 Oct 2014 New Haven, Connecticut, United States

GestVision

Health Diagnostics
Parenting
$100K10 Oct 2014 Connecticut, United States

Dextro

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
$1M17 Jun 2014 New York, New York, United States

IsoPlexis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$100K05 Jun 2014 Connecticut, United States

Eli Nutrition

Dietary Supplements
Health Care
$100K31 Jan 2014 New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.33
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tamarin Health

Blockchain
Health Care
Personal Health
$880K01 Sep 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Junzi Kitchen

Catering
Food Processing
Hospitality
Restaurants
$2M15 Jan 2017 New York, New York, United States

Umi Kitchen

Food Delivery
Sharing Economy
$1M26 Sep 2016 New York, United States

Rally

Collaborative Consumption
Events
Logistics
Music Venues
SaaS
Sports
Transportation
$1M26 Jan 2015 New York, United States

Wellinks

Fitness
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
Personal Health
Wearables
Wellness
$100K14 Oct 2014 New Haven, Connecticut, United States

GestVision

Health Diagnostics
Parenting
$100K10 Oct 2014 Connecticut, United States

Dextro

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
$1M17 Jun 2014 New York, New York, United States

IsoPlexis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$100K05 Jun 2014 Connecticut, United States

Eli Nutrition

Dietary Supplements
Health Care
$100K31 Jan 2014 New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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