Venture for America

Venture for America

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Overview

Venture for America is an organization that prepares college graduates for careers in the startup community. Their mission is to revitalize American cities and communities through entrepreneurship, to enable their best and brightest to create new opportunities for themselves and others, and to restore the culture of achievement to include value-creation, risk and reward, and the common good.

Highlights

Founded

2011

Industry

Financial Services

Employees

11-50

Investment

7

Lead Investment

1

Exits

1

Stages

Seed

Investor Type

Accelerator, Entrepreneurship Program, Startup Competition, Venture Capital

Location

New York, New York, United States, North America

Contact Information

Social

Profile Resume

Venture for America, established in 2011 and headquartered in New York, New York, United States, North America., specializes in Seed investments across Information Technology, Software, Video, Advertising, Digital Media, Social Media Marketing, Venture Capital, Business Development, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning. The organization boasts a portfolio of 7 investments, with an average round size of $903.0K and 1 successful exits. Their recent investments include TernPro, Bizdom, UMAMI Bioworks, Plug and Play Asia Pacific, Katapult Ocean. The highest investment round they participated in was $336.5M. Among their most notable exits are TernPro and Bizdom. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

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Andrew Yang

President and Founder

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Sherman Hu

Entrepreneur Board Member

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Jerrod Hill

Mentor

Investment portfolio

Venture for America has made 7 investments. Their most recent investment was on Mar 02, 2022, when UMAMI Bioworks raised $2.4M.

Venture for America has made 3 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Oct 15, 2019, when Sendspark raised $300.0K.

investments

7

Diversity investments

3

Lead investments

1

Number of exits

1

Investments

7

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Jan 26, 2018--120.0K
Oct 24, 2018--1.3M
Oct 15, 2019
Sendspark Sendspark
Information Technology300.0K
Mar 02, 2022
UMAMI Bioworks UMAMI Bioworks
Machine Learning2.4M

Exits

1

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

7

Investors

0

Funds

0

Funding Rounds

7

Venture for America has raised 7 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Mar 02, 2022 from a Pre Seed Round - UMAMI Bioworks round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Jan 26, 2018
Pre Seed Round - PathSpot Pre Seed Round - PathSpot
-120.0K-
Oct 24, 2018
Seed Round - Balto Seed Round - Balto
-1.3M-
Oct 15, 2019
Pre Seed Round - Sendspark Pre Seed Round - Sendspark
-300.0K-
Mar 02, 2022
Pre Seed Round - UMAMI Bioworks Pre Seed Round - UMAMI Bioworks
-2.4M-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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