Black Sheep Capital
Venture Capital
Active
Brisbane, Australia
39
3M
34
3.90
2
0.13
5
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Black Sheep Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Brisbane.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. When the investment is from Black Sheep Capital the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Black Sheep Capital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.
The overall number of key employees were 4.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Black Sheep Capital, startups are often financed by BlueChilli, Exto Partners, Transition Level Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Artesian VC, MIRIN CAPITAL, BlueChilli. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BlueChilli, Rampersand, Giant Leap Fund.
The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Australia. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Real Time, Intelligent Systems. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GetSwift, ResponSight, Sendle.
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- Stage focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 39
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 3.90
- Follow on index
- 0.13
- Investments by industry
- Software (11)
- Internet (6)
- E-Commerce (6)
- Mobile (5)
- SaaS (5) Show 80 more
- Investments by region
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- Australia (35)
- United States (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 59M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.77
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Strategy success index
- 0.20
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brainfish | 22 Jul 2023 | Seed | 876K | New South Wales, Sydney, Australia | |
| Shopwings | 23 Feb 2015 | E-Commerce, Internet, Shopping | Early Stage Venture | 14M | New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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