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InveStar Capital

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 1.19
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 14
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Electronics
  • Semiconductor
  • Information Technology
  • Telecommunications
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alchip

Electronics
Manufacturing
Product Design
$10M01 Dec 2004 New Taipei, Taiwan

Electronics
Manufacturing
Product Design
01 May 2004 Cupertino, California, United States

Kilopass

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
18 Jan 2004 San Jose, California, United States

Electronics
Manufacturing
Product Design
$2M01 Feb 2003 Cupertino, California, United States

Sonics

Digital Entertainment
Embedded Systems
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$20M14 Jan 2002 Milpitas, California, United States

MEMSIC

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$8M23 May 2001 Shanghai

Y Media

Semiconductor
Sensor
$3M21 Mar 2001 California, United States

RapidStream

Electronics
Information Technology
Internet
Internet of Things
Private Social Networking
Professional Networking
Software
Telecommunications
$25M22 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Lara Networks

Information Technology
Innovation Management
Manufacturing
Product Design
$40M23 Oct 2000 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 1.19
Peak activity year 1999
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alchip

Electronics
Manufacturing
Product Design
$10M01 Dec 2004 New Taipei, Taiwan

Electronics
Manufacturing
Product Design
01 May 2004 Cupertino, California, United States

Kilopass

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
18 Jan 2004 San Jose, California, United States

Electronics
Manufacturing
Product Design
$2M01 Feb 2003 Cupertino, California, United States

Sonics

Digital Entertainment
Embedded Systems
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$20M14 Jan 2002 Milpitas, California, United States

MEMSIC

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$8M23 May 2001 Shanghai

Y Media

Semiconductor
Sensor
$3M21 Mar 2001 California, United States

RapidStream

Electronics
Information Technology
Internet
Internet of Things
Private Social Networking
Professional Networking
Software
Telecommunications
$25M22 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Lara Networks

Information Technology
Innovation Management
Manufacturing
Product Design
$40M23 Oct 2000 San Jose, California, United States
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