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SJF Ventures

Founders Anne Claire Broughton David Kirkpatrick Rick Defieux

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Total investments 100
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 65
Rounds per year 4.00
Lead investments 14
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 15
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Analytics
Summary

In 1999 was created SJF Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Durham. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SJF Ventures, startups are often financed by Trailblazer Capital, Y Combinator, Sandbox Industries. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trailblazer Capital, NRG Energy, GSV AcceleraTE. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trailblazer Capital, Aster, Revolution.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Optoro, Intechra Holdings, Civitas Learning The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Logistics. 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 needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 31 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this SJF Ventures performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Anne Claire Broughton, David Kirkpatrick, Rick Defieux. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Iron Sheepdog

Apps
Construction
Finance
Software
$10M25 Mar 2024 Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Take Command Health

Health Care
Health Insurance
Insurance
Software
$25M19 Sep 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Revalue Nature

Environmental Consulting
Forestry
Project Management
$10M27 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

City Innovate

Consulting
Government
Information Technology
Software
$12M18 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Respondology

Advertising
Social Media Management
Spam Filtering
$11M06 Apr 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Terabase Energy

Energy
Software
Solar
$44M02 Aug 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Elemeno Health

Emergency Medicine
Health Care
Medical
SaaS
Software
$7M12 May 2022 Oakland, California, United States

Tive

Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
Shipping
Software
Supply Chain Management
$54M11 Apr 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Mercado Labs

Freight Service
Information Technology
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Software
16 Dec 2021 Dallas, Texas, United States
News
Ellipsis Health Raises $26M in Series A Funding

– Ellipsis Health is a San Francisco, CA-based developer of a voice vital sign to quantify and manage depression and anxiety at scale.
– The company raised $26m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by SJF Ventures with participation from AblePartners, Akhil Paul at Caparo Group, Alumni Ventures, Divesh Makan, Gaingels, Gary Loveman, Generator Ventures, Greycroft, Helmy Eltoukhy, Joanne Bradford, Khosla Ventures, Luminous Ventures, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Richard Socher, Ricardo Villela Marino, SpringTide Ventures, and What If Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow its customer base, expand global partnerships, build a multidisciplinary team, research, and develop new voice-based technology, expand its voice vital sign to address the mental health of children and adolescents.

Take Command Health Closes $12.0M Series A Funding

– Take Command Health Closes $12.0M Series A Funding.
– The round was led by LiveOak Venture Partners and SJF Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to grow its team, launch new products and features, including a new payments solution, and enhance design support and account management.

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Total investments 100
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 4.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 14
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Iron Sheepdog

Apps
Construction
Finance
Software
$10M25 Mar 2024 Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Take Command Health

Health Care
Health Insurance
Insurance
Software
$25M19 Sep 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Revalue Nature

Environmental Consulting
Forestry
Project Management
$10M27 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

City Innovate

Consulting
Government
Information Technology
Software
$12M18 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Respondology

Advertising
Social Media Management
Spam Filtering
$11M06 Apr 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Terabase Energy

Energy
Software
Solar
$44M02 Aug 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Elemeno Health

Emergency Medicine
Health Care
Medical
SaaS
Software
$7M12 May 2022 Oakland, California, United States

Tive

Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
Shipping
Software
Supply Chain Management
$54M11 Apr 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Mercado Labs

Freight Service
Information Technology
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Software
16 Dec 2021 Dallas, Texas, United States
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