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Flashstarts

Founders Charles Stack Jennifer Keiser Neundorfer

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$174K
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 2.70
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Education
  • Health Care
Summary

Flashstarts appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The main department of described VC is located in the Cleveland. The company was established in North America in United States.

Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Flashstarts works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Flashstarts, startups are often financed by Techstars, Right Side Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are WorldQuant Ventures LLC, Techstars, Steve Potash. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by North Coast Angel Fund, JumpStart Inc., Early Stage Partners.

The fund was created by Charles Stack.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Complion, Remesh, OnShift. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Education. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VirtualSpaces Inc

Architecture
Mobile
Real Estate
Virtual Reality
$50K05 Mar 2018 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Business Development
Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
SaaS
01 Mar 2018 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Komae

Apps
Child Care
Sharing Economy
$500K14 Dec 2017 Akron, Ohio, United States

Windrush

Data Visualization
SaaS
$25K20 Jul 2016 Saratoga Springs, New York, United States

B2B
Innovation Management
Intellectual Property
$25K01 Jun 2015 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Internet
$25K01 Apr 2015 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Remesh

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Internet
Market Research
Messaging
Project Management
Social Media
Software
$1M10 Dec 2014 New York, New York, United States

Digital Media
EdTech
Education
Social Media Marketing
$25K25 Jun 2014 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Advertising
Analytics
Big Data
Brand Marketing
Marketing
Software
$25K15 Jun 2014 Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States

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Total investments 27
Average round size 174K
Rounds per year 2.70
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.07

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VirtualSpaces Inc

Architecture
Mobile
Real Estate
Virtual Reality
$50K05 Mar 2018 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Business Development
Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
SaaS
01 Mar 2018 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Komae

Apps
Child Care
Sharing Economy
$500K14 Dec 2017 Akron, Ohio, United States

Windrush

Data Visualization
SaaS
$25K20 Jul 2016 Saratoga Springs, New York, United States

B2B
Innovation Management
Intellectual Property
$25K01 Jun 2015 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Internet
$25K01 Apr 2015 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Remesh

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Internet
Market Research
Messaging
Project Management
Social Media
Software
$1M10 Dec 2014 New York, New York, United States

Digital Media
EdTech
Education
Social Media Marketing
$25K25 Jun 2014 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Advertising
Analytics
Big Data
Brand Marketing
Marketing
Software
$25K15 Jun 2014 Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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