iStart Ventures

Status

Active

Location

Shanghai, China

Total investments

18

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

0.72

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageBig DataRoboticsCyber SecurityNetwork SecurityElectronics

Summary

In 1999 was created iStart Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Seattle.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the iStart Ventures, startups are often financed by SBCVC, Luoyang Donglin Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SBCVC, Luoyang Donglin Venture Capital, Bojiang Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SBCVC, Luoyang Donglin Venture Capital, Legend Star.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Manyoujing, Resthour Technology, River Security. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Robotics, Internet. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
4
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.72
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Food and Beverage (3)
  • Robotics (2)
  • Artificial Intelligence (2)
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Investments by region
  • China (16)
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2018

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
266K
Group Appearance index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
River Security 29 Mar 2016 Information Technology, Cyber Security, Network Security Early Stage Venture 0 China, Shanghai
Trality 01 Aug 2021 Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Big Data, Trading Platform Seed 2M Vienna, Austria
YAOPAI 23 Nov 2018 Photography Seed 1M Beijing, Beijing, China

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