FireStarter Fund
18
2M
13
1.80
0.28
6
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 18
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 1.80
- Follow on index
- 0.28
- Investments by industry
- Software (6)
- Recruiting (5)
- SaaS (3)
- Communities (3)
- Art (3) Show 38 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (17)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2012
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 10M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.94
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
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