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iStart Ventures

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 0.78
Lead investments 3
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Food and Beverage
  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IceWhale Technology Limited

Electronics
$400K27 Apr 2021 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

SUMMER FARM

Farming
Food and Beverage
Fruit
$1M17 Feb 2020 China, Zhejiang

Lanlonglong

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
$3M26 Dec 2019 Shanghai, China

Wobianmall.com

E-Commerce
$1M16 Sep 2019 Shanghai, China

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software
$7M10 Jul 2019 China, Zhejiang

YAOPAI

Photography
$1M23 Nov 2018 Beijing, Beijing, China

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software
$2M20 Nov 2018 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China

Manyoujing

Trading Platform
$1M17 Sep 2018 Qingyang District, Sichuan

Wenjun Technology

Advertising
Big Data
Marketing
Search Engine
$3M13 Mar 2018 Shanghai, China

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Total investments 18
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.78
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.44

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IceWhale Technology Limited

Electronics
$400K27 Apr 2021 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

SUMMER FARM

Farming
Food and Beverage
Fruit
$1M17 Feb 2020 China, Zhejiang

Lanlonglong

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
$3M26 Dec 2019 Shanghai, China

Wobianmall.com

E-Commerce
$1M16 Sep 2019 Shanghai, China

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software
$7M10 Jul 2019 China, Zhejiang

YAOPAI

Photography
$1M23 Nov 2018 Beijing, Beijing, China

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software
$2M20 Nov 2018 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China

Manyoujing

Trading Platform
$1M17 Sep 2018 Qingyang District, Sichuan

Wenjun Technology

Advertising
Big Data
Marketing
Search Engine
$3M13 Mar 2018 Shanghai, China
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