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Starting Line

Founders Ezra Galston

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Total investments 37
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 6.17
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Bitcoin
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2018 was created Starting Line, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Ezra Galston. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Starting Line, startups are often financed by Social Starts, Paul Hedrick, Origin Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ezra Galston, Origin Ventures, Jeff Weiner. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lightspeed Venture Partners, digi Ventures, The Chernin Group.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Unchained Capital, Clyde, Made In Cookware Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Social Media, Marketplace.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pinch

$3M09 Apr 2024 Evanston, Illinois, United States

BirdWatch

Building Maintenance
Home Services
Property Management
$3M24 Jan 2024 Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

Boom

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
$4M31 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Hedge

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Hedge Funds
Social Media
Trading Platform
11 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Classet

Employment
Information Technology
Training
$3M15 Dec 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Klover

App Discovery
Apps
Software
$25M01 Nov 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Fondue

Apps
Data Integration
Developer APIs
Shopping
Software
$10M19 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

B+J Studios

Blockchain
$10M08 Sep 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

RSTLSS

Fashion
Online Portals
Virtual Reality
$3M17 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Klover Announces $60M Series A Financing

– Klover, which is democratizing access to modern financial services by leveraging consumers’ permissioned data, today announced the close of $60m in new funding.
– The round led by Mercato Partners Traverse Fund participation from new and existing investors including Lightbank, Core Innovation Capital and Starting Line.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand the sales, marketing, engineering and product teams aggressively, grow their 1.5 million user base, and broaden the services and value to their consumers.

Unchained Capital Raises $25M in Series A Funding

– Unchained Capital, Inc. from Austin TX is building a full-suite financial services platform for individuals and businesses that store long-term wealth in bitcoin and demand private key ownership.
– The company raised $25M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by NYDIG and parent company Stone Ridge Holdings Group with participation from existing investors Ecliptic Capital, Starting Line, Stronghold Resource Partners, TVP Bitcoin Venture Fund, Ten31, and Platform Ventures.

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Total investments 37
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 6.17
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.35
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pinch

$3M09 Apr 2024 Evanston, Illinois, United States

BirdWatch

Building Maintenance
Home Services
Property Management
$3M24 Jan 2024 Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

Boom

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
$4M31 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Hedge

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Hedge Funds
Social Media
Trading Platform
11 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Classet

Employment
Information Technology
Training
$3M15 Dec 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Klover

App Discovery
Apps
Software
$25M01 Nov 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Fondue

Apps
Data Integration
Developer APIs
Shopping
Software
$10M19 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

B+J Studios

Blockchain
$10M08 Sep 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

RSTLSS

Fashion
Online Portals
Virtual Reality
$3M17 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
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