InveStar Capital

Total investments

31

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

1.19

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

14

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingProduct DesignSemiconductorElectronicsTelecommunicationsWirelessVoIP

Summary

InveStar Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Jose.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this InveStar Capital performs on 11 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2001.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the InveStar Capital, startups are often financed by Battery Ventures, iD TechVentures, The Still River Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Battery Ventures, TeleSoft Partners, Goldman Sachs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Battery Ventures, TeleSoft Partners, TL Ventures.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Wireless, Electronics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline IP Unity, Ubicom, Portal Wave For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
3
Exits
14
Rounds per year
1.19
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (14)
  • Electronics (13)
  • Semiconductor (11)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Telecommunications (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (26)
  • China (3)
  • Taiwan (2)
Peak activity year
1999

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
29M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.66

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Alchip 01 Dec 2004 Manufacturing, Product Design, Electronics Late Stage Venture 10M New Taipei, Taiwan
bizHive 01 Jan 2013 Small and Medium Businesses, Advertising Seed 150K United States, Illinois, Chicago
Datacastle 19 Nov 2008 Internet, Software, Information Technology, Mobile, Enterprise Software, Computer, Cloud Security Early Stage Venture 5M United States, Washington, Seattle
Fangtek 01 May 2004 Manufacturing, Product Design, Electronics Early Stage Venture United States, California, Cupertino

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