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Total investments 49
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$668K
Portfolio companies 47
Rounds per year 4.08
Lead investments 27
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.02
Exits 3
Key employees 35
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
Summary

iStarter is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2012. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the London.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the iStarter, startups are often financed by H-FARM, P101, Club Italia Investimenti. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Seedrs, U-Start, SeedInvest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vertis SGR S.p.A., Tamburi Investment Partners, P101.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this iStarter works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from iStarter the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 56 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Robotics, CRM. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Italy. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Satispay, Soldo, BorsadelCredito.it.

Besides them, we counted 35 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Swascan

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Internet
12 Nov 2019 Italy, Lombardy, Italy

Orway

Biometrics
14 Jun 2019 -

WeTipp

Apps
Information Services
Information Technology
13 Nov 2018 England

Bidoo

Auctions
E-Commerce
Online Auctions
05 Nov 2018 Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain

U-Earth

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
01 Nov 2018 England

Foorban

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Internet
Restaurants
24 Oct 2018 Lombardy

D-Heart

CRM
Health Care
Information Technology
Mobile
01 Oct 2018 Liguria

Satispay

Apps
Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$17M18 Jul 2018 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Banking
Financial Services
Payments
Transaction Processing
27 Feb 2018 England

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Total investments 49
Average round size 668K
Rounds per year 4.08
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 27
Follow on index 0.02
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.20

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Swascan

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Internet
12 Nov 2019 Italy, Lombardy, Italy

Orway

Biometrics
14 Jun 2019 -

WeTipp

Apps
Information Services
Information Technology
13 Nov 2018 England

Bidoo

Auctions
E-Commerce
Online Auctions
05 Nov 2018 Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain

U-Earth

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
01 Nov 2018 England

Foorban

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Internet
Restaurants
24 Oct 2018 Lombardy

D-Heart

CRM
Health Care
Information Technology
Mobile
01 Oct 2018 Liguria

Satispay

Apps
Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$17M18 Jul 2018 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Banking
Financial Services
Payments
Transaction Processing
27 Feb 2018 England
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