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Black River Ventures

Founders Andrey Daleky Evgeny Kaltashev Sergey Safronov

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$39M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.70
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 4
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
  • Financial Services
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vesttoo

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Machine Learning
Risk Management
$80M25 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

TransferGo

B2B
Business Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$50M30 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Style DNA

Information Technology
$1M03 Mar 2021 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Marqeta

FinTech
Payments
Transaction Processing
$25M27 Oct 2015 Oakland, California, United States

Wine in Black

E-Commerce
Logistics
Wine And Spirits
19 May 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Talentory

B2B
Internet
Recruiting
SaaS
$1M21 Nov 2013 Zurich, Switzerland

LitRes

Android
E-Commerce
EBooks
iOS
$5M10 Oct 2013 Moscow

Moe Delo

Consulting
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
$5M01 Mar 2013 Moscow

Moe Delo

Consulting
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
$4M05 Mar 2012 Moscow

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Total investments 17
Average round size 39M
Rounds per year 1.70
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.76

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vesttoo

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Machine Learning
Risk Management
$80M25 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

TransferGo

B2B
Business Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$50M30 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Style DNA

Information Technology
$1M03 Mar 2021 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Marqeta

FinTech
Payments
Transaction Processing
$25M27 Oct 2015 Oakland, California, United States

Wine in Black

E-Commerce
Logistics
Wine And Spirits
19 May 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Talentory

B2B
Internet
Recruiting
SaaS
$1M21 Nov 2013 Zurich, Switzerland

LitRes

Android
E-Commerce
EBooks
iOS
$5M10 Oct 2013 Moscow

Moe Delo

Consulting
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
$5M01 Mar 2013 Moscow

Moe Delo

Consulting
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
$4M05 Mar 2012 Moscow
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