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Starburst Ventures

Founders Bruno Costa Francois Chopard Van Espahbodi

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 1.09
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Aerospace
  • Computer Vision
  • Space Travel
Summary

In 2013 was created Starburst Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Starburst Ventures, startups are often financed by Shiseido, Draper Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shiseido, Seraph Group, Outpost Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shiseido, Bpifrance, 360 Capital Partners.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Drones, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Airfree SAS, EarthCube.

The current fund was established by Bruno Costa, Francois Chopard, Van Espahbodi.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Picogrid

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Communications Infrastructure
Industrial
Satellite Communication
$12M26 Mar 2024 Hawthorne, California, United States

Outpost

Aerospace
$7M30 Aug 2022 -

Strong Compute

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
$7M30 May 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Strong Compute

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
31 Mar 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Plus Ultra Space Outposts

Construction
Infrastructure
Space Travel
01 Jan 2021 -

Airfree SAS

$2M27 May 2019 Montreuil, Ile-de-France, France

Phase Four

Aerospace
Innovation Management
Space Travel
23 May 2018 California, United States

Natilus

Commercial
Drone Management
Drones
Manufacturing
13 Nov 2017 Richmond, California, United States

Airfree SAS

$1M01 May 2017 Montreuil, Ile-de-France, France

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Total investments 12
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.09
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.17
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Picogrid

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Communications Infrastructure
Industrial
Satellite Communication
$12M26 Mar 2024 Hawthorne, California, United States

Outpost

Aerospace
$7M30 Aug 2022 -

Strong Compute

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
$7M30 May 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Strong Compute

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
31 Mar 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Plus Ultra Space Outposts

Construction
Infrastructure
Space Travel
01 Jan 2021 -

Airfree SAS

$2M27 May 2019 Montreuil, Ile-de-France, France

Phase Four

Aerospace
Innovation Management
Space Travel
23 May 2018 California, United States

Natilus

Commercial
Drone Management
Drones
Manufacturing
13 Nov 2017 Richmond, California, United States

Airfree SAS

$1M01 May 2017 Montreuil, Ile-de-France, France
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