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Spero Ventures

Founders Rob Veres Shripriya Mahesh

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Total investments 46
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 7.67
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Education
Summary

In 2018 was created Spero Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Redwood City.

The real fund results show that this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Robotics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Skillshare, Core, Gencove. 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 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the Spero Ventures, startups are often financed by Omidyar Network, Union Square Ventures, UP2398. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UP2398, BootstrapLabs, Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UP2398, National Institutes of Health, Millennium Technology Value Partners.

The fund was created by Rob Veres, Shripriya Mahesh. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Telo Trucks

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$5M13 Mar 2024 San Carlos, California, United States

Tiny Health

Biotechnology
Health Care
$8M05 Mar 2024 Walnut Creek, California, United States

Base Operations

Big Data
Information Technology
Security
Software
Travel
$9M21 Dec 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

talkshoplive

Consumer Goods
Video Streaming
$7M16 Oct 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Confirm

Human Resources
Internet
Recruiting
$6M30 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

OOVA

Consumer
Consumer Goods
Health Care
$10M12 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Hyro

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Virtual Assistant
$20M31 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Clarity Movement

Hardware
Internet of Things
Sensor
Smart Building
Smart Cities
Software
$9M24 Jul 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Singularity Energy

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
$4M24 May 2022 Massachusetts, United States
News
Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M

– Talkshoplive, a live video host, raised $6m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Raine Ventures and joined by Spero Ventures.
– The company plans to scale its product management and technical teams.
– It also plans to double-down on category verticals.

AllHere Raises $8M in Series A Funding

– AllHere, a Boston MA-based company which specializes in providing K-12 districts with technology solutions for student outcomes, raised $8M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Spero Ventures with participation from Rethink Education, Gratitude Railroad, Potencia Ventures, and Boston Impact Initiative, as well as new investors Softbank’s Opportunity Fund, Operator Collective, and Yard Ventures.
– The investment round will be used to grow the capabilities of AllHere’s conversational artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, expand operations and business reach.

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Total investments 46
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 7.67
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Telo Trucks

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$5M13 Mar 2024 San Carlos, California, United States

Tiny Health

Biotechnology
Health Care
$8M05 Mar 2024 Walnut Creek, California, United States

Base Operations

Big Data
Information Technology
Security
Software
Travel
$9M21 Dec 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

talkshoplive

Consumer Goods
Video Streaming
$7M16 Oct 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Confirm

Human Resources
Internet
Recruiting
$6M30 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

OOVA

Consumer
Consumer Goods
Health Care
$10M12 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Hyro

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Virtual Assistant
$20M31 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Clarity Movement

Hardware
Internet of Things
Sensor
Smart Building
Smart Cities
Software
$9M24 Jul 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Singularity Energy

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
$4M24 May 2022 Massachusetts, United States
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