Castle Island Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Cambridge, United States

Total investments

74

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

51

Rounds per year

12.33

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.30

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsFinanceSecurityBitcoinCryptocurrencyBlockchainFinancial Exchanges

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Cambridge. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flipside Crypto, DUST Identity, ErisX. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Cyber Security. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the Castle Island Ventures, startups are often financed by True Ventures, Vestigo Ventures, The Chernin Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vestigo Ventures, True Ventures, Digital Currency Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by gumi Cryptos Capital, Vestigo Ventures, Unblock Ventures.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Blockchain/Crypto/Web3
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 250000000
Fund raised date
2022-02-16

Analytics

Total investments
74
Lead investments
9
Rounds per year
12.33
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Cryptocurrency (24)
  • FinTech (18)
  • Blockchain (16)
  • Financial Services (15)
  • Software (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (42)
  • India (2)
  • Indonesia (2)
  • Colombia (2)
  • Cayman Islands (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
3
Avg. valuation at time of investment
138M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Felix 28 May 2024 FinTech, Payments, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing Early Stage Venture 15M United States, California, San Francisco
hoseki 01 Jan 2021 Web Development Seed

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