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DNS Capital

Founders Gigi Pritzker Michael Pucker

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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$74M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 3.64
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 5
Key employees 6

Areas of investment

  • Food and Beverage
  • Health Care
  • Food Processing
  • Organic Food
  • Medical Device
Summary

DNS Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the DNS Capital, startups are often financed by PowerPlant Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GreatPoint Ventures, Cleveland Avenue, Tao Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cleveland Avenue, Tyson Foods, Sebastian Picardo.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight STX Entertainment, Beyond Meat, Aquion Energy. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Financial Services, Education. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from DNS Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this DNS Capital works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund was created by Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker. The overall number of key employees were 6.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Recogni

$102M20 Feb 2024 Cupertino, California, United States

Hero Bread

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Nutrition
$15M02 May 2023 -

Nimble Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Logistics
Robotics
Software
Warehousing
$65M16 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Stratus Materials

Battery
Manufacturing
$12M07 Feb 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

MetalSoft

Information Technology
Software
$16M06 Dec 2022 -

IMIDomics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$16M27 Jul 2021 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

RapidAPI

Apps
Cloud Computing
Developer APIs
Information Technology
Marketplace
$60M21 Apr 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Logistics
Robotics
Software
Warehousing
$50M11 Mar 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Truvian Sciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Medical Device
$105M24 Feb 2021 San Diego, California, United States
News
IMIDomicsTM Closes $16.5 Million Series A Financing to Advance its Precision Discovery Platform for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases

– IMIDomics has announced the completion of a $16.5m Series A financing round.
– The round was led by DNS Capital with additional investment from Bristol Myers Squibb, The Pritzker Organization, Tao Capital and others.
– IMIDomics was founded in 2015, following a decade of incubation within Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, during which the IMID-Biobank was built.
– The company relocated to the United States in 2021.
– IMIDomics’ Precision Discovery Platform combines and analyzes clinical, epidemiologic, and biomolecular data to uncover new insights about IMIDs including lupus, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and ulcerative colitis.

RapidAPI Raises $60M to Support Developer Growth and Fuel Expansion of Leading API Platform

– RapidAPI announced that it has raised $60m in its Series C funding round.
– The financing was led by Green Bay Ventures and includes new investor, Stripes. Existing investors include Andreessen Horowitz, DNS Capital, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Viola Growth, and Grove Ventures.
– The investment comes on the heels of a high-growth year for RapidAPI amidst a pandemic that drove a record number of developers and companies to the RapidAPI platform to advance their digital initiatives and accelerate the delivery of their software and services to the market.
– RapidAPI is a next-generation API platform that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs.

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Total investments 40
Average round size 74M
Rounds per year 3.64
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Recogni

$102M20 Feb 2024 Cupertino, California, United States

Hero Bread

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Nutrition
$15M02 May 2023 -

Nimble Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Logistics
Robotics
Software
Warehousing
$65M16 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Stratus Materials

Battery
Manufacturing
$12M07 Feb 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

MetalSoft

Information Technology
Software
$16M06 Dec 2022 -

IMIDomics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$16M27 Jul 2021 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

RapidAPI

Apps
Cloud Computing
Developer APIs
Information Technology
Marketplace
$60M21 Apr 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Logistics
Robotics
Software
Warehousing
$50M11 Mar 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Truvian Sciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Medical Device
$105M24 Feb 2021 San Diego, California, United States
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