Black River Ventures

Total investments

17

Average round size

39M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

1.70

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetFinancial ServicesFinTechConsumer GoodsB2BPaymentsSaaSSmall and Medium BusinessesConsulting

Summary

In 2013 was created Black River Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Grand Cayman. The company was established in North America in Cayman Islands.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Fitness, Education. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Marqeta, Coursera, Ayla Networks The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Andrey Daleky, Evgeny Kaltashev, Sergey Safronov. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Black River Ventures performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Black River Ventures, startups are often financed by Voyager Capital, Project A, e.ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Russian Internet Technology Fund, Project A, IFC Venture Capital Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund, Accomplice.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
3
Exits
4
Rounds per year
1.70
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (5)
  • Internet (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • SaaS (3)
  • Financial Services (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • United States (4)
  • Israel (1)
  • Russia (3)
  • Spain (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.76
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Marqeta 27 Oct 2015 FinTech, Payments, Transaction Processing Late Stage Venture 25M United States, California, Oakland
Style DNA 03 Mar 2021 Information Technology Seed 2M Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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