Kickstart Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Makati, Philippines

Total investments

43

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

3.91

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesMobileRecruitingHealth CareBig DataVideoEmploymentSkill Assessment

Summary

Kickstart Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Philippines. Kickstart Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Makati.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Kickstart Ventures, startups are often financed by Wavemaker Partners, 500 Startups, Monku2019s Hill Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wavemaker Partners, Spiral Ventures Pte Ltd., Monku2019s Hill Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Patamar Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Y Combinator.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Singapore. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Havenly, Lineagen, Lifetrack Medical Systems. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The real fund results show that this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Kickstart Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries BSeries C
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
43
Lead investments
4
Exits
2
Rounds per year
3.91
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • E-Commerce (8)
  • Big Data (7)
  • Mobile (6)
  • Health Care (5)
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Investments by region
  • Philippines (24)
  • Singapore (14)
  • Canada (1)
  • United States (3)
  • Indonesia (1)
Peak activity year
2015

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
21M
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
16
Avg. multiplicator
3.36

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Edamama 20 Nov 2023 E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Retail Early Stage Venture 10M Benguet, Philippine, Philippines
Igloohome 17 Mar 2022 Software, Information Technology, Apps, Mobile Apps, Smart Home Early Stage Venture 12M Central, Singapore, Singapore

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