Benson Oak Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Herzliya, Israel

Total investments

17

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.77

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsAppsSecurityMarketplaceSocial MediaCryptocurrencyBlockchain

Summary

In 2001 was created Benson Oak Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Israel. The main department of described VC is located in the Herzliya.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LoungeBuddy, ZenGo, KZen Networks. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Social Media Marketing, Android.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Benson Oak Ventures works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Benson Oak Ventures, startups are often financed by iAngels, Y Combinator, Rick Marini. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Elron Electronic Industries, iAngels, FJ Labs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iAngels, Viola Credit, Rio Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailBlockchain/Crypto/Web3
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 20000000
Fund raised date
2018-07-10

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.77
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Security (3)
  • Payments (3)
  • Marketplace (3)
  • Apps (2)
  • Internet (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
  • Israel (5)
  • China (1)
  • Estonia (1)
  • United Arab Emirates (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
6

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