I have been invested by angels and investment funds (VCs) during the last few years and we have won several startup competitions, but unfortunately none of these has taken the expected outbreak.
The first two startups both went wrong and the third one died out, because it was stagnating. But I was out of my fourth venture at $3,000,000.
Now, from 2015, I have been building the fifth startup in my startup studio, Webb & Flow. (10+ online analytics tools are operated with it.) Several times we have received over $4 million company valuations per project and over $1 million investment bids.