FlashStarts

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Cleveland, United States

Total investments

27

Average round size

174K

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

2.70

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareHospitalSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducationBusiness Development

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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Investor highlights

Geo focus
Generalist

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Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.70
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • SaaS (7)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
  • Education (5)
  • Health Care (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (26)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
65K
Group Appearance index
0.07
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Adminix 01 Mar 2018 Information Technology, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Cloud Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Business Development Seed United States, Ohio, Cleveland
Colign 01 Jun 2015 B2B, Intellectual Property, Innovation Management Seed 25K United States, Ohio, Cleveland

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