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Big Sky Partners

Founders Michael Schwab

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 10
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 5
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Health Care
  • Energy
  • Management Information Systems
Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Sausalito.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Marketing, CRM. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Aravo Solutions, ProcessClaims, Linkage Biosciences.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Big Sky Partners, startups are often financed by Greenhouse Capital Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Sierra Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Greenhouse Capital Partners, Stephen Friedman, Sierra Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Greenhouse Capital Partners, Stephen Friedman, Fisher Capital.

Comparing to the other companies, this Big Sky Partners performs on 0 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2008. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. When the investment is from Big Sky Partners the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The current fund was established by Michael Schwab. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Naked Energy

Energy
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
Solar
13 Jul 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

SENDY

Marketplace
Outdoors
Recreation
Software
$1M01 Jun 2022 -

Lifefactory

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$5M26 Aug 2015 California, United States

Lifefactory

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$3M01 Jan 2012 California, United States

Linkage Biosciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M09 Sep 2011 San Francisco, California, United States

Lifefactory

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$1M22 Apr 2010 California, United States

Linkage Biosciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M04 Feb 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Windspire Energy (fka Mariah Power)

Energy
Mining Technology
Wind Energy
08 Dec 2008 Reno, Nevada, United States

Windspire Energy (fka Mariah Power)

Energy
Mining Technology
Wind Energy
$500K09 Apr 2008 Reno, Nevada, United States

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Total investments 17
Average round size 7M
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Naked Energy

Energy
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
Solar
13 Jul 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

SENDY

Marketplace
Outdoors
Recreation
Software
$1M01 Jun 2022 -

Lifefactory

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$5M26 Aug 2015 California, United States

Lifefactory

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$3M01 Jan 2012 California, United States

Linkage Biosciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M09 Sep 2011 San Francisco, California, United States

Lifefactory

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$1M22 Apr 2010 California, United States

Linkage Biosciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M04 Feb 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Windspire Energy (fka Mariah Power)

Energy
Mining Technology
Wind Energy
08 Dec 2008 Reno, Nevada, United States

Windspire Energy (fka Mariah Power)

Energy
Mining Technology
Wind Energy
$500K09 Apr 2008 Reno, Nevada, United States
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