Novastar Ventures

The fund was located in Africa if to be more exact in Kenya. The main department of described VC is located in the Nairobi.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Novastar Ventures, startups are often financed by SunFunder, Peery Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Unreasonable Capital, Global Partnerships, Yamaha Motor Co.,. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Unreasonable Capital, United States Agency for International Development, SunFunder.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sanergy, Sure Chill, PayGo Energy. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Kenya. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Logistics, Social Entrepreneurship. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

This organization was formed by Steve Beck. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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