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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 1.29
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 9
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Retail
  • Health Care
  • Food and Beverage
  • Fashion
Summary

In 2001 was created Castanea, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Newton.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Castanea, startups are often financed by Pear Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Bain Capital Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bain Capital Ventures, West Capital Advisors, SPK Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by West Capital Advisors, SPK Capital, Ron Frasch.

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 Memebox, 4moms, Orangetheory Fitness. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Internet. The fund has exact preference 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.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Castanea works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MBX

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$60M15 Dec 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

4moms

Hardware
Robotics
Software
$40M10 Sep 2014 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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Total investments 27
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 1.29
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.26

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MBX

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$60M15 Dec 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

4moms

Hardware
Robotics
Software
$40M10 Sep 2014 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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