Eniac Ventures
| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Venture capital |
| Founded 📆 | 2009 |
| Founders 👔 | Hadley Harris, Nihal Mehta, Tim Young, and Vic Singh |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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Eniac Ventures is an American seed-stage investment firm. The name stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, which was the name of the first electric general purpose computer.
Overview[edit]
Eniac Ventures was formed in 2009 as a seed-stage investment firm.[1]
The founding general partners of Eniac include Hadley Harris, Nihal Mehta, Tim Young, and Vic Singh. It now has offices in San Francisco and New York.[2] Its first fund was closed in 2010 at $1.6 million,[3] consisting of the founders’ own funds and funds from friends and family. They made investments in 32 initial companies,[4] and developed a reputation for accelerating companies from the seed stage to Series A funding stage.[5] Eniac's second was closed in 2013 at $12.9 million.[6] In 2015 the firm closed its third round of funding at $55 million.[7] In 2017 the firm closed a fourth round of funding at $100 million.[2][8]
Portfolio[edit]
Early investments the company made included Airbnb, Twitter, SoundCloud, Glide, and Vimeo.[7] Companies that Eniac has more recently invested in include Ready Robotics,[9] Legit,[10] 10% Happier,[11] Pienso,[12] Snips,[13] Bleximo,[14] Iron Ox,[15] Xwing,[16] FortressIQ,[17] Zero,[18] Fuzzy,[19] Visual Vocal,[20] and Sea Machines.[21]
In 2019 so far, Eniac has invested in 1upHealth [22] and briq [23]
References[edit]
- ↑ Steven Overly (2013-11-24). "Forget the .com. Some companies are ditching Web sites for a mobile-only approach". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Eniac Ventures closes $100 million fund".
- ↑ "Mobile-Focused Eniac Ventures Raises $55M Third Fund".
- ↑ "Inside the Mind of a New York VC: Hadley Harris of Eniac Ventures". 14 March 2017.
- ↑ Locker, Melissa (13 April 2017). "Eniac Ventures just closed a new $100 million round for robots (and some other stuff)". Fast Company.
- ↑ "Xconomy: Eniac Ventures Opens Its Pockets Wider for Mobile With Second Fund". Xconomy. 30 September 2013.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Eniac Ventures raises new $55M fund to double down on mobile investments". 22 January 2015.
- ↑ Guditch, Paulina. "What This Serial Investor Wants All First Time Founders To Know". Forbes.
- ↑ "Why Ready Robotics moved its HQ from Baltimore to Ohio". 23 April 2018.
- ↑ "Startup Q&A - Legit is Working to End the Repetitive Nature of Filing Patents". VentureFizz. 3 April 2018.
- ↑ "10% Happier, a 'no BS' meditation app for skeptics, raises $3.7M in new funding".
- ↑ "Pienso raises $2.1M to help non-programmers interact with machine learning models".
- ↑ "Committed to privacy, Snips founder wants to take on Alexa and Google, with blockchain".
- ↑ "Bleximo raises $1.5M for its quantum computing accelerators".
- ↑ "Are Robots the Future of Farming?". Inc.com. 3 January 2018.
- ↑ "Autonomous-aviation startup Xwing takes flight with $4 million in funding". Techcrunch.
- ↑ "FortressIQ raises $12M to bring new AI twist to process automation".
- ↑ "Zero raises $8.5 million for a credit card that functions like a debit card".
- ↑ Kolodny, Lora (11 December 2017). "Fuzzy Pet Health raises $4.5 million for house calls for pets". www.cnbc.com.
- ↑ "Visual Vocal raises $3.6M for virtual reality enterprise collaboration platform". GeekWire. 13 October 2017.
- ↑ "Toyota Invests in Self-Sailing Ship Maker Sea Machines Robotics | WIRED". www.wired.com. Archived from the original on 2018-12-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Health data aggregation, centralization platform 1upHealth scores $2.38M in seed funding. The round was led by Eniac Ventures, Social Leverage and Meridian Street Capital". MobiHealthNews. February 14, 2019.
- ↑ "Briq, the next building block in tech's reconstruction of the construction business, raises $3 million". TechCrunch. February 22, 2019.
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