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Black Sheep Capital

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 4.50
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 5
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Mobile
Summary

Black Sheep Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Brisbane.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. When the investment is from Black Sheep Capital the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Black Sheep Capital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Black Sheep Capital, startups are often financed by BlueChilli, Exto Partners, Transition Level Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Artesian VC, MIRIN CAPITAL, BlueChilli. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BlueChilli, Rampersand, Giant Leap Fund.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Australia. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Real Time, Intelligent Systems. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GetSwift, ResponSight, Sendle.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ProfitPeak

24 Jun 2024 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Brainfish

$2M06 May 2024 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Haast

Compliance
Marketing Automation
SaaS
$876K24 Aug 2023 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Brainfish

$876K22 Jul 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Beamible

Cloud Computing
SaaS
$1M31 May 2023 -

Aerotruth

Cloud Storage
Document Management
Software
$1M23 Dec 2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Modo

Consulting
Professional Services
Software
$584K12 Oct 2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Curious Thing

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$5M16 May 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Layer

Gaming
Marketplace
Media and Entertainment
Video Games
$2M09 May 2022 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Total investments 45
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 4.50
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ProfitPeak

24 Jun 2024 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Brainfish

$2M06 May 2024 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Haast

Compliance
Marketing Automation
SaaS
$876K24 Aug 2023 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Brainfish

$876K22 Jul 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Beamible

Cloud Computing
SaaS
$1M31 May 2023 -

Aerotruth

Cloud Storage
Document Management
Software
$1M23 Dec 2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Modo

Consulting
Professional Services
Software
$584K12 Oct 2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Curious Thing

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$5M16 May 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Layer

Gaming
Marketplace
Media and Entertainment
Video Games
$2M09 May 2022 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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