Blacksmith Capital
8
4M
5
0.44
0.38
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Blacksmith Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2003. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Messaging. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Automattic, Blue Vector Systems, Sennari. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Blacksmith Capital, startups are often financed by Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Rock Creek Capital, Peter Zandan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Pelion Venture Partners, Radar Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pelion Venture Partners, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, True Ventures.
When the investment is from Blacksmith Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Blacksmith Capital works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2005. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.
This organization was formed by John Burke, Phil Black.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 8
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 0.44
- Follow on index
- 0.38
- Investments by industry
- Software (6)
- Mobile Apps (5)
- Gaming (3)
- Information Technology (2)
- Blogging Platforms (2) Show 10 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (9)
- Peak activity year
- 2005
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 540M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sennari | 10 May 2005 | Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps | Early Stage Venture | 2M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
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