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BIG Ventures

Founders Brendan Iribe

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.42
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Video Games
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Marketing
  • Neuroscience
Summary

BIG Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Brendan Iribe. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the BIG Ventures, startups are often financed by Benchmark, TriplePoint Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Spark Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners, Qualcomm Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, Formation 8.

Opposing the other organizations, this BIG Ventures works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consumer Electronics, Virtualization. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Oculus, Gaikai. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

2weeks

PC Games
Video Games
$1M01 Aug 2024 -

PrimaKu

24 Aug 2023 -

Kirontech

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Technical Support
31 Jan 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Eratani

Agriculture
AgTech
Information Services
Information Technology
Supply Chain Management
$3M14 Dec 2022 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

TipTip

Internet
Social Media
$13M28 Nov 2022 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Oculus

Advertising
Augmented Reality
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet
Marketing
Neuroscience
Video Games
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$2M30 Sep 2012 California, United States

Gaikai

Cloud Computing
Gaming
Video Games
$30M20 Jul 2011 California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.42
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

2weeks

PC Games
Video Games
$1M01 Aug 2024 -

PrimaKu

24 Aug 2023 -

Kirontech

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Technical Support
31 Jan 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Eratani

Agriculture
AgTech
Information Services
Information Technology
Supply Chain Management
$3M14 Dec 2022 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

TipTip

Internet
Social Media
$13M28 Nov 2022 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Oculus

Advertising
Augmented Reality
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet
Marketing
Neuroscience
Video Games
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$2M30 Sep 2012 California, United States

Gaikai

Cloud Computing
Gaming
Video Games
$30M20 Jul 2011 California, United States
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