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Techstart Ventures

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Total investments 150
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 91
Rounds per year 15.00
Lead investments 42
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Belfast. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Techstart Ventures, startups are often financed by Pitch@Palace, Angel CoFund, Techstars Austin Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Clarendon Fund Managers, Co-FundNI, Angel CoFund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Clarendon Fund Managers, Pitch@Palace, Co-FundNI.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Information Technology. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight axial3D, Neurovalens. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 41 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Techstart Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Techstart Ventures performs on 27 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Continuum Industries

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$10M25 Sep 2023 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Enzai

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$4M05 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Reath

Information Technology
Software
Sustainability
Waste Management
06 Mar 2023 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Desana Network

Information Services
Information Technology
$7M01 Mar 2023 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Gigged.AI

Computer
Software
$2M16 Jan 2023 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Re-Vana Therapeutics

Health Care
Market Research
Medical
Therapeutics
$13M30 Nov 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Budibase

Web Design
Web Development
$7M04 Nov 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

LUMENSTREAM

Electronics
Energy
Manufacturing
$548K21 Oct 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

This is Unfolded

Environmental Consulting
Waste Management
$1M06 Oct 2022 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Software supply chain management company Cloudsmith raises $15M

– Cloudsmith has raised $15m in a series A funding round led by Tiger Global, with participation from Shasta, Amaranthine, Sorenson, Leadout Capital, Frontline, MMC, and Techstart.
– The infusion brings the company’s total raised to over $17m.
– Cloudsmith’s platform aims to solve this by helping organizations distribute software without the need for local datacenters and the costs associated with them.
– Cloudsmith can also automatically scan for security vulnerabilities, helping businesses avoid introducing exploits into their software supply chains.

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Total investments 150
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 15.00
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 42
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.58

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Continuum Industries

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$10M25 Sep 2023 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Enzai

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$4M05 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Reath

Information Technology
Software
Sustainability
Waste Management
06 Mar 2023 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Desana Network

Information Services
Information Technology
$7M01 Mar 2023 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Gigged.AI

Computer
Software
$2M16 Jan 2023 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Re-Vana Therapeutics

Health Care
Market Research
Medical
Therapeutics
$13M30 Nov 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Budibase

Web Design
Web Development
$7M04 Nov 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

LUMENSTREAM

Electronics
Energy
Manufacturing
$548K21 Oct 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

This is Unfolded

Environmental Consulting
Waste Management
$1M06 Oct 2022 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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