YellowDog
VC Fund
Bristol, United Kingdom
YellowDog is a VC fund in Bristol focused on Health Care and Q&A. YellowDog enables companies across the globe to accelerate and optimise complex data processes with the most scalable predictive scheduling and orchestration platform for hybrid and multi-cloud management. There are multiple uses of the technology, across multiple industries - from Life Sciences, to Financial Services, to CGI and more. The idealcloud workflows are those that are elastic, highly parallelisable and distributable. The technology automates the selection of the best source of compute for every workload, delivering new levels of prediction and efficiency in cost and performance optimisation.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries YellowDog invests in
Stages YellowDog invests in
Countries YellowDog invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $288k–$444k
- Series A
- $891k–$2.2M
- Series B
- $8.9M–$26M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 2 (29%)
- Q&A 1 (14%)
- EdTech 1 (14%)
- Retail 1 (14%)
- Medical 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (29%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
- Series C 1 (14%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bruce Beckloff
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Gareth Williams
Founder & Non-Executive Director
|
Founder & Non-Executive Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Simon Ponsford
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| With the mission to provide the most effective education for all, QANDA(Mathpresso) operates the world’s leading learning platform, QANDA, an AI-based learning app that allows students of all levels to receive instant answers and customized learning sources. Recognized for its technological advances, QANDA(Mathpresso) was selected as GSV Edtech150, national representative of Google AI for Social Good APAC event in 2018, and guest speaker at AWS Public Sector Summit ASEAN in 2019. Since 2015, QANDA(Mathpresso) has raised over $105 million in total from investors including SoftBank Ventures Asia, Legend Capital, Mirae Asset Investment, GGV, and Goodwater Capital. Headquartered in Seoul, QANDA(Mathpresso) has offices in Tokyo, Hanoi, Jakarta, and Bangkok. | $50M / Series C / Jun 21, 2021 | ||
| Unlimeat is a company that produces plant-based meat. Its plant-based meat can be used in a wide range of dishes, ensuring that its plant-based meats are ideal for both Eastern and Western cuisine. It transforms perfectly edible but unloved produce that would otherwise go to waste due to size, blemishes, or cosmetic imperfections into delectableplant-based foods. The company is proud to be a member of the Upcycled Food Association. | $8.9M / Series B / Feb 01, 2021 | ||
| Unlimeat is a company that produces plant-based meat. Its plant-based meat can be used in a wide range of dishes, ensuring that its plant-based meats are ideal for both Eastern and Western cuisine. It transforms perfectly edible but unloved produce that would otherwise go to waste due to size, blemishes, or cosmetic imperfections into delectableplant-based foods. The company is proud to be a member of the Upcycled Food Association. | $25.8M / Series B / Dec 31, 2020 | ||
| Stibee is an internet marketing service company that offers content monetization and A/B testing services. | $287.9K / Seed / Jun 03, 2020 | ||
| The.Wave.Talk developed a biosensor that can detect and monitor impurities (bacteria) within a second. 420,000 people die of food-borne disease per year. Moreover, 10 million people will die of antimicrobial resistance by 2050. It's all about bacteria. It is the origin of life and 5 million-trillion-trillion bacteria are living together withus today. Bacteria are everywhere and every-time. Comparing to this, conventional technologies can detect bacteria only with sampling manner. Because they take long time(several hours up-to days) even with expensive tools. | $2.2M / Series A / Feb 07, 2020 | ||
| Happy Moonday makes organic sanitary napkins and tampons for women's health. | $891K / Series A / Aug 13, 2019 | ||
| Unlimeat is a company that produces plant-based meat. Its plant-based meat can be used in a wide range of dishes, ensuring that its plant-based meats are ideal for both Eastern and Western cuisine. It transforms perfectly edible but unloved produce that would otherwise go to waste due to size, blemishes, or cosmetic imperfections into delectableplant-based foods. The company is proud to be a member of the Upcycled Food Association. | $444.4K / Seed / Feb 28, 2019 |
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FAQ
What does YellowDog invest in?
YellowDog invests primarily in Health Care, Q&A and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is YellowDog's check size?
YellowDog typically joins rounds of $288k–$444k at Seed, $891k–$2.2M at Series A and $8.9M–$26M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds YellowDog participates in.
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Who are the partners at YellowDog?
The team at YellowDog includes Bruce Beckloff (Chief Executive Officer), Gareth Williams (Founder & Non-Executive Director) and Simon Ponsford (Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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