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Detroit Venture Partners

Founders Brian Hermelin Dan Gilbert

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Total investments 100
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 60
Rounds per year 7.14
Lead investments 20
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 8
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Social Media
Summary

Detroit Venture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Detroit. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Detroit Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Hyde Park Venture Partners, NCT Ventures, Village Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ludlow Ventures, NCT Ventures, Stage 1 Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NCT Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, BIP Capital.

This Detroit Venture Partners works on 17 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 typical startup value when the investment from Detroit Venture Partners is 5-10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 46 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The high activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

This organization was formed by Brian Hermelin, Dan Gilbert. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline StockX, Dwolla, Miso Media Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Digital Media, Mobile.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chiyo

$3M26 Mar 2024 Manhattan, New York, United States

Revela

Accounting
Project Management
Real Estate
Software
$9M29 Nov 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Layer

Web Development
$3M16 Oct 2023 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Treehouse

Clean Energy
Home Improvement
Internet
Real Estate
Software
$10M09 Aug 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

InvestNext

Consulting
Financial Services
Funding Platform
Real Estate Investment
$8M31 Mar 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Wheel the World

Adventure Travel
E-Commerce
Tourism
Travel
$6M09 Mar 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Rivet Work

Productivity Tools
Recruiting
SaaS
Training
$5M14 Feb 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Nickels

Finance
Financial Services
Information Services
Mobile Apps
$4M12 Oct 2022 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Hush

Cyber Security
Identity Management
Risk Management
$4M21 Sep 2022 Detroit, Michigan, United States
News
Dwolla Raises $21M in Funding

– Dwolla is a Des Moines, Iowa-based modern payments platform provider.
– Company raised $21m in funding.
– The round was led by Foundry Group with participation from Park West Asset Management LLC, Union Square Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners, Firebrand Ventures and Next Level Ventures, and Jeremy Andrus, CEO of Traeger.
– The new investment will be used to conduct growth initiatives with international payments, expansive partner relationships through a partner API and further accelerate its product roadmap focused on a real-time payments experience.

Splash Financial Raises $44.3M in Series B Funding

– Splash Financial is a digital lending platform that allows borrowers to shop and compare financial products from a network of lenders.
– The company secured $44.3m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by DST Global and Citi Ventures, with participation from Detroit Venture Partners, Firebolt Ventures, and existing investors CMFG Ventures and Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to further accelerate growth within its lender network and automated underwriting platform.

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Total investments 100
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 7.14
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chiyo

$3M26 Mar 2024 Manhattan, New York, United States

Revela

Accounting
Project Management
Real Estate
Software
$9M29 Nov 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Layer

Web Development
$3M16 Oct 2023 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Treehouse

Clean Energy
Home Improvement
Internet
Real Estate
Software
$10M09 Aug 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

InvestNext

Consulting
Financial Services
Funding Platform
Real Estate Investment
$8M31 Mar 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Wheel the World

Adventure Travel
E-Commerce
Tourism
Travel
$6M09 Mar 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Rivet Work

Productivity Tools
Recruiting
SaaS
Training
$5M14 Feb 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Nickels

Finance
Financial Services
Information Services
Mobile Apps
$4M12 Oct 2022 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Hush

Cyber Security
Identity Management
Risk Management
$4M21 Sep 2022 Detroit, Michigan, United States
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