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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.80
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 1
Key employees 4
http://saravapars.com/
Tehran, Tehran County, Iran

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Advertising
  • Advertising Platforms
  • Leisure
  • Marketing
Summary

Sarava is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Sarava, startups are often financed by Iran Technology Development Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lok Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lok Capital, ARA Asset Management.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Audio, Internet. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Anetwork, ZORAQ.COM, Alibaba.ir The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Sarava is 50-100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Sarava works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016.

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Team
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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alibaba.ir

Leisure
Tourism
Travel Agency
$22M04 Dec 2017
Sarava
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Adro Ad Exchange

Ad Exchange
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
E-Commerce
Marketing
10 Oct 2016
Lok Capital
Sarava
 Vienna

Internet
Leisure
$1M27 Jun 2016
Sarava
 Tehran, Tehran County, Iran

Navaar

Audio
Audiobooks
Podcast
$250K20 May 2016
Sarava
 Tehran, Tehran County, Iran

Anetwork

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
E-Commerce
$3M01 Feb 2016
Sarava
 Tehran, Tehran County, Iran

Adro Ad Exchange

Ad Exchange
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
E-Commerce
Marketing
01 Dec 2015
Anetwork
Sarava
 Vienna

Internet
Leisure
$1M19 Mar 2015
Sarava
 Tehran, Tehran County, Iran
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Total investments 8
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 0.80
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.25

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alibaba.ir

Leisure
Tourism
Travel Agency
$22M04 Dec 2017
Sarava
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Adro Ad Exchange

Ad Exchange
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
E-Commerce
Marketing
10 Oct 2016
Lok Capital
Sarava
 Vienna

Internet
Leisure
$1M27 Jun 2016
Sarava
 Tehran, Tehran County, Iran

Navaar

Audio
Audiobooks
Podcast
$250K20 May 2016
Sarava
 Tehran, Tehran County, Iran

Anetwork

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
E-Commerce
$3M01 Feb 2016
Sarava
 Tehran, Tehran County, Iran

Adro Ad Exchange

Ad Exchange
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
E-Commerce
Marketing
01 Dec 2015
Anetwork
Sarava
 Vienna

Internet
Leisure
$1M19 Mar 2015
Sarava
 Tehran, Tehran County, Iran
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