Bluestar Ventures

Total investments

6

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.27

Lead investments

2

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetMobileHuman ResourcesInformation ServicesSaaSEnterprise SoftwareWirelessIdentity ManagementArchitectureCollectibles

Summary

Bluestar Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Bluestar Ventures works on 4 percentage points more 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are William Blair New World Ventures, Walden International, Tribune Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Shopping. 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 KnowToday, SurePayroll, Fastmobile.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
6
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Internet (3)
  • Wireless (2)
  • Enterprise Software (2)
  • Mobile (1)
  • SaaS (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (5)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
18 May 2000 Internet, Identity Management, Collectibles Early Stage Venture 12M United States, Chicago

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