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Lodestar Ventures

Founders Shayna Modarresi

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Fitness
  • Health Care
  • Wellness
Summary

In 2016 was created Lodestar Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The current fund was established by Shayna Modarresi. The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline KangaDo, iBeat, test.ai The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Private Social Networking. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Lodestar Ventures, startups are often financed by VK Rajaram, Shayna Modarresi, Sunil Rayan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shayna Modarresi, Maveron, Henry Kravis. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by e.ventures, Plug and Play, Zetta Venture Partners.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

100Plus

Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Health Care
Software
Wellness
$3M13 Jul 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

KangaDo

Mobile
Parenting
Private Social Networking
01 May 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Sift wallet

Apps
Credit Cards
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
Payments
Software
15 Dec 2016 Sunnyvale, California, United States

test.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
Mobile
Software
Test and Measurement
$2M14 Sep 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

100Plus

Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Health Care
Software
Wellness
$1M02 Aug 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.20
Group Appearance index 0.60

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

100Plus

Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Health Care
Software
Wellness
$3M13 Jul 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

KangaDo

Mobile
Parenting
Private Social Networking
01 May 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Sift wallet

Apps
Credit Cards
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
Payments
Software
15 Dec 2016 Sunnyvale, California, United States

test.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
Mobile
Software
Test and Measurement
$2M14 Sep 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

100Plus

Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Health Care
Software
Wellness
$1M02 Aug 2016 San Francisco, California, United States
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