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Big Sur Ventures

Founders Josu00e9 Miguel Herrero Manuel Mates Garcia

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Total investments 61
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 5.08
Lead investments 12
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 1
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Floatech

Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Sustainability
$1M24 Nov 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Frenetic

Artificial Intelligence
Electrical Distribution
$13M07 Nov 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

NerdApp

Information Technology
Technical Support
$2M02 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Trucksters

Logistics
Transportation
$38M12 Jun 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

JOTELULU

Cloud Computing
IaaS
Information Technology
SaaS
Telecommunications
$4M22 May 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Nailted

Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$448K17 May 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Networkme

Education
Human Resources
$1M07 Oct 2022 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

PandaGo

$5M26 Sep 2022 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Reveni

E-Commerce
$3M20 Sep 2022 Madrid, Madrid, Spain
News
Brazilian digital auto marketplace InstaCarro revs up with $23M in funding

– InstaCarro, a digital marketplace that connects used car sellers to dealers in Brazil, has raised $23m in a Series B round of funding.
– The round was led by U.S.-based firms J Ventures, FJ Labs and Rise Capital, and joined by Spain’s All Iron Ventures and Big Sur.
– With the latest round, São Paulo-based InstaCarro has now raised more than $56m since its 2015 inception.

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Total investments 61
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 5.08
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Floatech

Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Sustainability
$1M24 Nov 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Frenetic

Artificial Intelligence
Electrical Distribution
$13M07 Nov 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

NerdApp

Information Technology
Technical Support
$2M02 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Trucksters

Logistics
Transportation
$38M12 Jun 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

JOTELULU

Cloud Computing
IaaS
Information Technology
SaaS
Telecommunications
$4M22 May 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Nailted

Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$448K17 May 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Networkme

Education
Human Resources
$1M07 Oct 2022 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

PandaGo

$5M26 Sep 2022 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Reveni

E-Commerce
$3M20 Sep 2022 Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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