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FireStarter Fund

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.80
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 6
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Recruiting
  • SaaS
  • Communities
  • Art
Summary

In 2012 was created FireStarter Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the FireStarter Fund, startups are often financed by Techstars Chicago (Formerly Excelerate Labs), Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Lakewest Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Chicago Ventures, Lakewest Venture Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Chicago Ventures, Lakewest Venture Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this FireStarter Fund performs on 0 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2012. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Hireology, TapMe, UpCity. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Recruiting, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LogicGate

Compliance
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$1M01 Dec 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Built In

Communities
Employment
News
Recruiting
$2M14 Nov 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Routific

Delivery
Fleet Management
Logistics
SaaS
Transportation
24 Feb 2016 British Columbia

Built In

Communities
Employment
News
Recruiting
$1M01 Oct 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Blitsy

Art
E-Commerce
Retail
Video
$3M07 May 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Public Good Software

Communities
Crowdfunding
Data Integration
FinTech
Non Profit
Software
$1M28 Jan 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$11M13 Nov 2014 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Blitsy

Art
E-Commerce
Retail
Video
$1M19 Jul 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pangea Money Transfer

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
Transaction Processing
$1M01 May 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 18
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 1.80
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LogicGate

Compliance
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$1M01 Dec 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Built In

Communities
Employment
News
Recruiting
$2M14 Nov 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Routific

Delivery
Fleet Management
Logistics
SaaS
Transportation
24 Feb 2016 British Columbia

Built In

Communities
Employment
News
Recruiting
$1M01 Oct 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Blitsy

Art
E-Commerce
Retail
Video
$3M07 May 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Public Good Software

Communities
Crowdfunding
Data Integration
FinTech
Non Profit
Software
$1M28 Jan 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$11M13 Nov 2014 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Blitsy

Art
E-Commerce
Retail
Video
$1M19 Jul 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pangea Money Transfer

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
Transaction Processing
$1M01 May 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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