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Benson Oak Ventures

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.77
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 1
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Security
  • Payments
  • Marketplace
  • Apps
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aktivate

SaaS
Sports
$3M13 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Verofax Limited

Big Data
$1M03 Jan 2022 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Aktivate

SaaS
Sports
$4M14 Sep 2021 New York, New York, United States

ZenGo

Payments
Security
$20M27 Apr 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

S'More Date

Apps
Internet
$2M26 Jan 2021 New York, New York, United States

KRE8.TV

Content
Social Media
$1M21 Sep 2020 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

S'More Date

Apps
Internet
$1M27 Nov 2019 New York, New York, United States

Tailor-ED

Content
E-Learning
Education
Personal Development
$1M30 Oct 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Become

Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
$10M29 Oct 2019 California, United States
News
Aktivate Announces $7 Million Seed Funding Round to Launch Scholastic Sports Community

– Aktivate, a sports technology platform for K-12 schools, announced its public launch and the closing of a $7MM seed financing round that will fund the development of a market-leading sports administration platform and scholastic sports community.
– The funding round was led by Will Ventures with participation from Tal Ventures, Village Global – the venture firm backed by some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Diane Greene, and Reid Hoffman – as well as TechAviv, Benson Oak Ventures, and angel investors Zeke Emanuel and Howard Morgan.

ZenGo Raises $20M in Series A Funding

– ZenGo is a crypto mobile wallet for retail investors.
– The company raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from Distributed Global (in partnership with Temasek Holdings) and Austin Rief Ventures, as well as existing investors Benson Oak Ventures, Samsung Next, Elron, Collider Ventures, FJ Labs, and others.
– The new investment will be used to expand the set of financial services, including a VISA payment card, and a larger set of choices for on-ramp, off-ramp, trade and savings options.

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Total investments 17
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 0.77
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aktivate

SaaS
Sports
$3M13 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Verofax Limited

Big Data
$1M03 Jan 2022 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Aktivate

SaaS
Sports
$4M14 Sep 2021 New York, New York, United States

ZenGo

Payments
Security
$20M27 Apr 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

S'More Date

Apps
Internet
$2M26 Jan 2021 New York, New York, United States

KRE8.TV

Content
Social Media
$1M21 Sep 2020 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

S'More Date

Apps
Internet
$1M27 Nov 2019 New York, New York, United States

Tailor-ED

Content
E-Learning
Education
Personal Development
$1M30 Oct 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Become

Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
$10M29 Oct 2019 California, United States
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