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Curious Minds

Founders Anthony Kelani David Gonen Jonathan Gonen Shlomo Gonen

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$988K
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.41
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Big Data
  • Security
  • Cyber Security
  • Mobile Payments
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

DOV-E

Mobile
Mobile Payments
Telecommunications
$1M01 Dec 2016 North District

LogDog

Big Data
Cyber Security
Mobile
Security
$3M16 Jul 2015 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

LogDog

Big Data
Cyber Security
Mobile
Security
$640K14 Nov 2014 Israel, Tel Aviv District

Drupe Mobile

Contact Management
Location Based Services
Messaging
Mobile
$1M01 Sep 2014 Israel, North District, Israel

Customer Service
Mobile
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$210K28 Aug 2013 Los Angeles, California, United States

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Local Advertising
$250K15 Mar 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

Authorly

EdTech
Education
Publishing
$320K06 Mar 2013 California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 988K
Rounds per year 0.41
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.14
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

DOV-E

Mobile
Mobile Payments
Telecommunications
$1M01 Dec 2016 North District

LogDog

Big Data
Cyber Security
Mobile
Security
$3M16 Jul 2015 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

LogDog

Big Data
Cyber Security
Mobile
Security
$640K14 Nov 2014 Israel, Tel Aviv District

Drupe Mobile

Contact Management
Location Based Services
Messaging
Mobile
$1M01 Sep 2014 Israel, North District, Israel

Customer Service
Mobile
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$210K28 Aug 2013 Los Angeles, California, United States

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Local Advertising
$250K15 Mar 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

Authorly

EdTech
Education
Publishing
$320K06 Mar 2013 California, United States
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