Curious Minds

Total investments

7

Average round size

988K

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.41

Follow on index

0.14

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareMobileMessagingMobile PaymentsBig DataCyber SecuritySecurityTelecommunicationsLocation Based ServicesContact Management

Summary

Curious Minds is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The main department of described VC is located in the West Hollywood. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Curious Minds, startups are often financed by Microsoft ScaleUp Tel Aviv, TheTime, Microsoft Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TheTime, TMT Investments, Maxfield Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Firstime Venture Capital, BRM Capital, Sweet Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Drupe Mobile, LogDog. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Israel. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Contact Management.

The important activity for fund was in 2013. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The fund was created by Anthony Kelani, David Gonen, Jonathan Gonen, Shlomo Gonen.

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Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
0
Rounds per year
0.41
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (5)
  • Big Data (2)
  • Security (2)
  • Cyber Security (2)
  • Mobile Payments (1)
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Investments by region
  • Israel (4)
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2013

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.57

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Drupe Mobile 01 Sep 2014 Mobile, Messaging, Location Based Services, Contact Management Seed 1M North District, Israel, Israel

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