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Start Smart Labs

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.56
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • SaaS
Summary

Start Smart Labs is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Start Smart Labs works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Start Smart Labs is 5-10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Start Smart Labs, startups are often financed by Zetta Venture Partners, SparkLabs Accelerator, Polaris Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zetta Venture Partners, SparkLabs Accelerator, Polaris Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Zetta Venture Partners, SparkLabs Accelerator, Rivas Capital.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Big Data, Predictive Analytics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Falkonry, Gamalon For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Falkonry

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
National Security
SaaS
Software
$5M19 Jun 2018 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Falkonry

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
National Security
SaaS
Software
$6M24 Feb 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Jurni Inc.

Big Data
Publishing
Social Media Management
$250K27 Apr 2016 Oakland, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
12 May 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 0.56
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.60

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Falkonry

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
National Security
SaaS
Software
$5M19 Jun 2018 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Falkonry

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
National Security
SaaS
Software
$6M24 Feb 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Jurni Inc.

Big Data
Publishing
Social Media Management
$250K27 Apr 2016 Oakland, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
12 May 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States
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