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Firestartr

Founders Anil Hansjee Chipper Boulas Richard Muirhead

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 45
Rounds per year 4.58
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 14
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • FinTech
  • Payments
  • Financial Services
  • Finance
Summary

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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Banked

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$27M14 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Clarisights

Advertising
Business Intelligence
SaaS
$14M04 Oct 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Mamo Pay

Apps
Billing
FinTech
Internet of Things
Payments
Peer to Peer
Personal Finance
$8M17 Jun 2021 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

StudentFinance

Banking
Education
Educational Software
Finance
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
$5M18 May 2021 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Gr4vy

Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$11M29 Apr 2021 California, United States

Railsbank

Banking
Developer APIs
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$37M12 Nov 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Banking
Developer APIs
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$10M04 Sep 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Veem

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Other Financial Services
Payments
14 Aug 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

SkinNinja

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$1M06 Jun 2018 London, England, United Kingdom
News
StudentFinance.com Raises $5.3M in Seed Funding

– 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 launches cloud payment orchestration, pulls in $11.1M Series A led by Nyca Partners

– 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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Total investments 55
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 4.58
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Banked

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$27M14 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Clarisights

Advertising
Business Intelligence
SaaS
$14M04 Oct 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Mamo Pay

Apps
Billing
FinTech
Internet of Things
Payments
Peer to Peer
Personal Finance
$8M17 Jun 2021 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

StudentFinance

Banking
Education
Educational Software
Finance
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
$5M18 May 2021 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Gr4vy

Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$11M29 Apr 2021 California, United States

Railsbank

Banking
Developer APIs
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$37M12 Nov 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Banking
Developer APIs
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$10M04 Sep 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Veem

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Other Financial Services
Payments
14 Aug 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

SkinNinja

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$1M06 Jun 2018 London, England, United Kingdom
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