Boldstart Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Miami, United States

Total investments

183

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

89

Rounds per year

13.07

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

19

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecuritySecurityDeveloper Tools

Summary

Boldstart Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Ed Sim. The overall number of key employees were 6.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight REBEL, Indiegogo, Crew. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, Information Technology.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. This Boldstart Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Boldstart Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Boldstart Ventures, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, New Enterprise Associates, Canaan Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BoxGroup, Plug and Play, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Accomplice, Comcast Ventures, Sequoia Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Check size
500K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 367000000
Fund raised date
2022-06-01

Analytics

Total investments
183
Lead investments
19
Exits
19
Rounds per year
13.07
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (95)
  • SaaS (64)
  • Enterprise Software (39)
  • Information Technology (38)
  • Security (28)
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Investments by region
  • United States (147)
  • Canada (11)
  • Israel (4)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Iceland (4)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
184M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
2.30
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AtomicJar 25 Jan 2023 Early Stage Venture 25M United States, New Jersey, Newark
steadybit 11 Mar 2024 Software, SaaS, PaaS Early Stage Venture 6M North Rhine-Westphalia, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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