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Blue Sky Private Equity

Founders Mark Sowerby

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.39
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Biotechnology
  • Service Industry
  • Women's
  • Fashion
Summary

Blue Sky Private Equity is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The main department of described VC is located in the Brisbane. The company was established in Australia.

This organization was formed by Mark Sowerby. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Blue Sky Private Equity, startups are often financed by Uniseed Ventures, QIC BioVentures, GBS Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are January Capital, Uniseed Ventures, Spray Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by January Capital, Emerald Media, DKSH.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight aCommerce, Conventus Orthopaedics, ParcelPoint. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Australia. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Business Development, Fashion.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The real fund results show that this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Blue Sky Private Equity works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Myriota

Asset Management
Internet of Things
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$15M26 Mar 2018 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Shoes of Prey

E-Commerce
Fashion
Shoes
Women's
$15M07 Dec 2015 Santa Monica, California, United States

HeyLets

Service Industry
Travel
Travel Agency
$1M06 May 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Paws for Life

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Retail
$1M03 Dec 2013 New South Wales

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Total investments 7
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 0.39
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.14
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Myriota

Asset Management
Internet of Things
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$15M26 Mar 2018 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Shoes of Prey

E-Commerce
Fashion
Shoes
Women's
$15M07 Dec 2015 Santa Monica, California, United States

HeyLets

Service Industry
Travel
Travel Agency
$1M06 May 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Paws for Life

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Retail
$1M03 Dec 2013 New South Wales
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