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QB1 Ventures

Founders Alex Swieca

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 1.43
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • SaaS
  • EdTech
  • Education
  • E-Learning
  • Knowledge Management
Summary

In 2015 was created QB1 Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The fund was created by Alex Swieca. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the QB1 Ventures, startups are often financed by Trinity Capital Investment, New York Angels, Javelin Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rosecliff Ventures, OurCrowd, Courtside Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rosecliff Ventures, Sterling.VC, Spider Capital.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this QB1 Ventures performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2016.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ElMindA, FanAI, Percepto We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, EdTech. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Israel. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FanAI

Artificial Intelligence
eSports
Fantasy Sports
Internet
Location Based Services
Social Media
$1M24 Jul 2017 California, United States

Yellowdig

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Knowledge Management
SaaS
$500K22 Sep 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Gambling
Gaming
Video Games
$2M21 Sep 2016 New York, New York, United States

WSC Sports

Artificial Intelligence
Broadcasting
Content
Digital Media
Sports
Video
$12M08 Sep 2016 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Yellowdig

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Knowledge Management
SaaS
$1M18 Jul 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

mPrest

Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Medical
Security
Smart Cities
Software
Telecommunications
$20M25 Jan 2016 Petah Tiqva, HaMerkaz, Israel

Percepto

Drones
Enterprise
Industrial Automation
Robotics
Software
$1M01 Jan 2016 Israel, Center District, Israel

ElMindA

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$28M16 Nov 2015 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Replay Technologies

3D Technology
Software
Video
$13M15 Oct 2015 California, United States

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Total investments 10
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 1.43
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FanAI

Artificial Intelligence
eSports
Fantasy Sports
Internet
Location Based Services
Social Media
$1M24 Jul 2017 California, United States

Yellowdig

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Knowledge Management
SaaS
$500K22 Sep 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Gambling
Gaming
Video Games
$2M21 Sep 2016 New York, New York, United States

WSC Sports

Artificial Intelligence
Broadcasting
Content
Digital Media
Sports
Video
$12M08 Sep 2016 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Yellowdig

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Knowledge Management
SaaS
$1M18 Jul 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

mPrest

Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Medical
Security
Smart Cities
Software
Telecommunications
$20M25 Jan 2016 Petah Tiqva, HaMerkaz, Israel

Percepto

Drones
Enterprise
Industrial Automation
Robotics
Software
$1M01 Jan 2016 Israel, Center District, Israel

ElMindA

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$28M16 Nov 2015 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Replay Technologies

3D Technology
Software
Video
$13M15 Oct 2015 California, United States
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