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Rockstart Accelerator

Founders Bjorn Brekel Don Ritzen James Digby Koen Wagemakers Oscar Kneppers Rune Theill Susana Aru00e9valo

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Total investments 242
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$713K
Portfolio companies 194
Rounds per year 18.62
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 12
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Health Care
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
Summary

Rockstart Accelerator appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in The Netherlands. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Amsterdam.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Rockstart Accelerator, startups are often financed by Start-Up Chile, Vitulum Ventures, Tola Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vitulum Ventures, Tola Capital, Notion. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Marcel Beemsterboer, DOEN Participaties, Arthur Kosten.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Rockstart Accelerator the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Rockstart Accelerator works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The current fund was established by Bjorn Brekel, Don Ritzen, James Digby, Koen Wagemakers, Oscar Kneppers, Rune Theill. The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PastBook, Syndy, Deskbookers. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - The Netherlands. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Apps. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Beholder

$940K21 Feb 2024 Middletown, Delaware, United States

Maalexi

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
$3M08 Jan 2024 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Klimate

Finance
Software
Sustainability
$4M17 Oct 2023 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Helio

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Developer APIs
Information Technology
Internet
SaaS
Software
$5M05 Oct 2023 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Balam

Cryptocurrency
Payments
$400K21 Aug 2023 -

Authic Labs

Blockchain
Software
Supply Chain Management
Technical Support
18 Jul 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Celes

Machine Learning
Retail Technology
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
$1M04 Jul 2023 Barranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia

Molecular Quantum Solutions

$708K27 Jun 2023 Søborg, Hovedstaden, Denmark

IM Efficiency

Freight Service
Software
Transportation
16 May 2023 Helmond, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

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Total investments 242
Average round size 713K
Rounds per year 18.62
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.33

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Beholder

$940K21 Feb 2024 Middletown, Delaware, United States

Maalexi

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
$3M08 Jan 2024 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Klimate

Finance
Software
Sustainability
$4M17 Oct 2023 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Helio

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Developer APIs
Information Technology
Internet
SaaS
Software
$5M05 Oct 2023 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Balam

Cryptocurrency
Payments
$400K21 Aug 2023 -

Authic Labs

Blockchain
Software
Supply Chain Management
Technical Support
18 Jul 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Celes

Machine Learning
Retail Technology
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
$1M04 Jul 2023 Barranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia

Molecular Quantum Solutions

$708K27 Jun 2023 Søborg, Hovedstaden, Denmark

IM Efficiency

Freight Service
Software
Transportation
16 May 2023 Helmond, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
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