Deep Space Ventures
VC Fund
Dallas, United States
Deep Space Ventures is an early stage investor in great ideas and amazing leaders. The team has demonstrated a track record of engaging with talented leaders using innovative solutions to create value across a wide array of industries.The investment focus is primarily on markets where incredible innovation is taking place, the cost to operate abusiness is relatively low, and there is a lack of seed capital available relative to the early stage opportunities that exist. Some people call these markets "flyover cities" or "tier 2 and tier 3" startup ecosystems. We consider them to be the capital efficient markets where our capital and strategic value can go a long way to help a founding team achieve their goals.Current primary focus areas are B2B Software and Esports.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
- Fund size:
- $20M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Deep Space Ventures invests in
Stages Deep Space Ventures invests in
Countries Deep Space Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $675k–$2.6M
- Series A
- $5M–$9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- eSports 6 (26%)
- Gaming 5 (22%)
- Software 5 (22%)
- Analytics 4 (17%)
- SaaS 3 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (61%)
- Series A 2 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (9%)
- Angel 1 (4%)
- Private Equity 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 18 (78%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Eventador.io
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Eventador.io is a fully managed, enterprise grade Stream Processing as a Service platform based in Austin, TX. It was founded by Erik Beebe and Kenny Gorman in 2016 to address a critical business problem - to alleviate the complexities and enable building applications that use real-time data at their core. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 11, 2018 | |
Quarterback
|
While esports continues to grow rapidly and more gaming influencers grab the spotlight, most of them struggle to monetize their fan-base and rely heavily on creating new content for their fans to consume. Founded by a team of experienced software industry veterans, Quarterback is the first fan-engagement platform that enables streamers andprofessional players to continuously engage with their audiences by creating their own fan-club gaming leagues. These leagues can host daily challenges, give away prizes, compete against other clubs worldwide, help fans compete with like-minded players and offer other perks.Quarterback is on a mission to evolve the way esports enthusiasts interact with each other. Quarterback creates a new language of engagement, where esports talents and streamers become an integral part of their fans gameplay. | $2.5M / Seed / May 15, 2018 | |
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Quarterback
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While esports continues to grow rapidly and more gaming influencers grab the spotlight, most of them struggle to monetize their fan-base and rely heavily on creating new content for their fans to consume. Founded by a team of experienced software industry veterans, Quarterback is the first fan-engagement platform that enables streamers andprofessional players to continuously engage with their audiences by creating their own fan-club gaming leagues. These leagues can host daily challenges, give away prizes, compete against other clubs worldwide, help fans compete with like-minded players and offer other perks.Quarterback is on a mission to evolve the way esports enthusiasts interact with each other. Quarterback creates a new language of engagement, where esports talents and streamers become an integral part of their fans gameplay. | $2.5M / Seed / May 15, 2018 | |
Ateyo
|
Ateyo is a fashion brand that represents gaming culture. They made game wears using home sewing machines. Their game wear products combine video game culture, comfort, and game play performance. They create innovative game wear products to express their passion for games and enhance everyday game play. | Seed / Apr 20, 2018 | |
FanAI
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FanAI is an AI-driven Audience Monetization platform focusing first on esports, and their sponsor ecosystems, increasing franchise and sponsorship revenues by making their audience data actionable. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 22, 2018 | |
Mycroft
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Mycroft is a developer of an open source voice assistant platform designed to handle operating systems. The company's open source voice assistant platform is an artificial intelligence based software that offers natural language processing capability paired with an open-source and open-hardware approach, enabling users to handle theirelectronic items through voice. | $1.8M / Seed / Jan 12, 2018 | |
CounterFind
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CounterFind is turnkey technology combining a proprietary filtering formula with industry expertise to recognize, report, and remove all ads marketing counterfeit merchandise on Facebook and all counterfeit product listings on Amazon in real time. | $1M / Seed / Dec 20, 2017 | |
OpTic Gaming
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OpTic Gaming is a professional American eSports organization. | Private Equity / Dec 11, 2017 | |
Selery
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A unique one-stop shop logistics provider for small to medium eCommerce businesses. Selery offers innovative personalized services, packaging, and technology to standout in the crowded eCommerce market. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 10, 2017 | |
Jog.ai
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A platform that indexes voice data to make it searchable and accessible | Seed / Oct 17, 2017 | |
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FAQ
What does Deep Space Ventures invest in?
Deep Space Ventures invests primarily in eSports, Gaming and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Deep Space Ventures's check size?
Deep Space Ventures typically joins rounds of $675k–$2.6M at Seed and $5M–$9M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Deep Space Ventures participates in.
When did Deep Space Ventures last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Deep Space Ventures closed in Jun 2018. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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