IA Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage start-ups. It works with entities in the financial technology industry that utilize data for a competitive edge. The company states that it communicates a clear path with its start-up investments and invests in long-term relationships.
The company initially started with investing in early-stage companies. As the company has grown, it now invests in both early-stage and later-stage start-ups, with the intention of taking companies through the growth stage. IA Ventures mode of investing consists of investing early and then moving in more money later. It seeks to invest in companies that generate contributory databases, core enabling data technologies, or technologies that utilize large data sets.
Companies that are in IA Venture's portfolio include Octane Lending, Gospel Technology, TellusLabs, PointOne Navigation, Quorum Control, InfoSum, Drift, Verge Genomics, Alluvium, Kepler Communication, Komodo Health, Direct Match, and more.
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Funded Companies
TransferWise is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.
DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.
Datadog is a New York City-based enterprise software company offering monitory and analytics for developers, IT operation teams and business users.
An industrial biotech company developing a commercial bioprocess for manufacturing bio-based malonic acid.
Digital Ocean is a cloud computing infrastructure provider that is used by developers to build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size.
Better Mortgage offers an online mortgage application which promises faster preapproval and a better rate.
Flatiron Health is a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors.
Kepler Communications is a company that has a focus on satellite production and communication networks.
Next Big Sound provides a dashboard, charts, and reports to monitor popularity, activity, and metrics for musicians, albums, authors and books across social media, sales and events.
Twice is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012.
Company
Komodo Health is a health information technology company based in San Francisco and New York City.
Signifyd is a SaaS-based, enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
ThinkNear is a Los Angeles-based company founded by Eli Portnoy.
Simple is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded in 2009 by Joshua Reich, Shamir Karkal and Alex Payne.
Internet technology company based in somerville, ma, usa
Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that specializes in detection and response to cyberattacks in cloud, data center, IoT, and enterprise.
Placeiq is a New York City-based company.
Drift provides a clean energy trading platform for business and residential customers.
SavingStar is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based advertising company.
Visual Revenue is a New York-based company founded by Dennis R. Mortensen.
Lore is a New York City-based learning management system company founded in 2011.
Associated investment funds
People
Brad Gillespie
General Partner
Roger Ehrenberg
Managing Partner
Further reading
IA Ventures Doubles Down On Big Data With A New $105M Fund
Erick Schonfeld
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February 8, 2012
