Firestartr appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.
The fund was created by Anil Hansjee, Chipper Boulas, Richard Muirhead. The overall number of key employees were 5.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, FinTech. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Compass, TransferWise, Wagestream. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Firestartr, startups are often financed by Seedcamp, Kima Ventures, Index Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are London Co-Investment Fund, Digital Currency Group, 500 Startups. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Digital Currency Group, Downing Ventures, Blockchain Capital.
Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. This Firestartr works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Firestartr is 100-500 millions dollars.
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Mamo Pay | $8M | 17 Jun 2021 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | ||
StudentFinance | $5M | 18 May 2021 | Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain | ||
Gr4vy | $11M | 29 Apr 2021 | California, United States | ||
Railsbank | $37M | 12 Nov 2020 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
| $10M | 04 Sep 2019 | London, England, United Kingdom | |||
Veem | 14 Aug 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States | |||
SkinNinja | $1M | 06 Jun 2018 | London, England, United Kingdom |
– StudentFinance.com, a Madrid, Spain-based fintech company building the technology and data infrastructure to enable education providers globally to offer Income Share Agreements (ISAs), secured $5.3m in seed funding.
– The round was co-led by Giant Ventures and Armilar Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Mustard Seed Maze and Seedcamp, Sabadell Venture Capital, Victoria van Lennep (founder of Lendable); Martin Villig (founder of Bolt); Ed Vaizey (the UK’s longest-serving Culture & Digital Economy Minister); Firestartr (UK-based early-stage VC); Serge Chiaramonte (UK fintech investor); and more.
– Gr4vy, a cloud-native payments company, raised $11.1m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Nyca Partners (a VC with a bench of partners who are ex-Visa), with participation from Activant Capital (a fintech investor), Global Founders Capital and Firestartr, bringing its total funding to $12.2m.
– Gr4vy is tackling the problem of payments orchestration.
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| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Banked | $27M | 14 Feb 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
Clarisights | $14M | 04 Oct 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States | ||
Mamo Pay | $8M | 17 Jun 2021 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | ||
StudentFinance | $5M | 18 May 2021 | Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain | ||
Gr4vy | $11M | 29 Apr 2021 | California, United States | ||
Railsbank | $37M | 12 Nov 2020 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
| $10M | 04 Sep 2019 | London, England, United Kingdom | |||
Veem | 14 Aug 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States | |||
SkinNinja | $1M | 06 Jun 2018 | London, England, United Kingdom |
