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Total investments 67
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 62
Rounds per year 5.58
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 24
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Enterprise Software
  • Internet
  • Apps
Summary

Start Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Start Fund, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Data Collective DCVC, Tuesday Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Andreessen Horowitz, Alexis Ohanian, Tuesday Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SV Angel, GV, Andreessen Horowitz.

The important activity for fund was in 2012. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Start Fund performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Education. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Comprehend Systems, ClassDojo, Science Exchange Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

One Month | Learn to Code in 30 Days

EdTech
Education
Web Development
$770K24 Jun 2014 New York, New York, United States

Streem

Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Video Streaming
$875K25 Apr 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Apptimize

A/B Testing
Analytics
Enterprise Software
Mobile
SaaS
$2M22 Jan 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Betable

Apps
Gambling
Online Games
$18M05 Nov 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Swiftype

App Marketing
Developer APIs
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Knowledge Management
Open Source
SaaS
Search Engine
Software
$1M15 Aug 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

BuildZoom

Big Data
Construction
Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Home Services
Marketplace
Smart Building
Smart Home
$1M25 Jun 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

First Opinion

Health Care
iOS
mHealth
21 Jun 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

EasyPost

Delivery
E-Commerce
Logistics
Shipping
$1M06 Jun 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Sift

Big Data
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Network Security
Predictive Analytics
Security
$4M19 Mar 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 67
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 5.58
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 24
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

One Month | Learn to Code in 30 Days

EdTech
Education
Web Development
$770K24 Jun 2014 New York, New York, United States

Streem

Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Video Streaming
$875K25 Apr 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Apptimize

A/B Testing
Analytics
Enterprise Software
Mobile
SaaS
$2M22 Jan 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Betable

Apps
Gambling
Online Games
$18M05 Nov 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Swiftype

App Marketing
Developer APIs
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Knowledge Management
Open Source
SaaS
Search Engine
Software
$1M15 Aug 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

BuildZoom

Big Data
Construction
Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Home Services
Marketplace
Smart Building
Smart Home
$1M25 Jun 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

First Opinion

Health Care
iOS
mHealth
21 Jun 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

EasyPost

Delivery
E-Commerce
Logistics
Shipping
$1M06 Jun 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Sift

Big Data
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Network Security
Predictive Analytics
Security
$4M19 Mar 2013 San Francisco, California, United States
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