Big Sur Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Madrid, Spain

Total investments

61

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

39

Rounds per year

5.08

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveLogisticsE-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailArtificial IntelligenceSaaSAppsFashion

Summary

In 2011 was created Big Sur Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in Spain. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Madrid.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Big Sur Ventures works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Big Sur Ventures, startups are often financed by Marco Valta, FundersClub, FJ Labs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are FJ Labs, JME Ventures, Cabiedes & Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FJ Labs, JME Ventures, General Catalyst.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Rebag, Candex Technologies, Smart Protection. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Spain. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Fashion, Marketplace.

The current fund was established by Josu00e9 Miguel Herrero, Manuel Mates Garcia. The overall number of key employees were 8.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailDeveloper ToolsEcommerce Show 7 more
Stage focus
Seed
Check size
109K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
61
Lead investments
12
Exits
1
Rounds per year
5.08
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (22)
  • Internet (11)
  • Software (10)
  • SaaS (9)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
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Investments by region
  • Spain (46)
  • United States (6)
  • Brazil (2)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • United Kingdom (3)
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Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
374K
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cuyna 21 Jul 2022 Real Estate, E-Commerce, Food Delivery Seed 3M Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Floatech 24 Nov 2023 Manufacturing, Sustainability, Industrial Manufacturing Seed 1M Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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