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What does South Carolina Research Authority invest in?
South Carolina Research Authority invests most often at Grant and Venture (73% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology.
South Carolina Research Authority highlights
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8 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Grant and Venture: 73% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 20 rounds, median $128K
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3 exits from the portfolio
What they do
SC Launch Inc. is an independent, nonprofit organization affiliated with SCRA, which provides loans and investments to selected South Carolina-based companies participating in the SC Launch program.From their own website
- Type
- Corporate VC
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Technology
- Based in
- United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first51 appearances
- 2026
2 rounds
- Mar
- Jan
- 2025
12 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Jun
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- 2024
3 rounds
- Sept
- Sept
- May
- 2023
9 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Feb
- 2022
6 rounds
- Dec
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- May
- 2021
3 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- 2013
1 round
- May
- 2012
4 rounds
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 5 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
25 of 60 we have independently watched raise
6amcityAICGBilditBubble PaperCase StatusElastrin TherapeuticsGoodUnitedHooksecurityKiyatecModjoulPixlmobPulmanageQwerky AIReportingxpressRuffian SoftwareScopestackSiteLabsSiteMarkerSprocketsStorybuttonTestedHQThreatCaptainViatecWAVS CustomZipitwirelessActivEd, Inc. (Walkabouts)AtticuspharmaAvancenBandwagonfanclubBoyd CyclingCADchatCarbonCentsCarbonconversionsCitibotElectroWire MedicalExtremiti3D, LLCFatsackGobeepHankHoowaki, LLCHorse SpotHuman Presence (Ellipsis Technologies)Integrated Biometrics, LLCLeukogene TherapeuticsLifetaggerappMOONDOG Animation Studio, LLCMembers HQMitochem Therapeutics, IncNeuroQuestNewforgetechPEC360PrecisiongeneticsPursuitAlert, LLCRainwalk TechnologyResimplifiSenexbioServositySmartrobottutorUasidekickVayuClearand 8 more
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed3 in all
DigitalsmithsBought by TiVo$135MJan 2014
ImmunologixBought by Intrexon CorporationUndisclosedOct 2011
Sabal MedicalBought by Swisslog Group.UndisclosedJan 2011
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.