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Bluestar Ventures

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.27
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Wireless
  • Enterprise Software
  • Mobile
  • SaaS
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fastmobile

Mobile
Wireless
$12M16 May 2005 Illinois, United States

Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
Service Industry
Software
23 Apr 2001 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

SurePayroll

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
$8M22 Jan 2001 Illinois, United States

Eppraisals.com

Collectibles
Identity Management
Internet
$12M18 May 2000 United States, Chicago

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Total investments 6
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.27
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fastmobile

Mobile
Wireless
$12M16 May 2005 Illinois, United States

Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
Service Industry
Software
23 Apr 2001 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

SurePayroll

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
$8M22 Jan 2001 Illinois, United States

Eppraisals.com

Collectibles
Identity Management
Internet
$12M18 May 2000 United States, Chicago
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