Silicon Catalyst
Accelerator/Incubator
Active
Santa Clara, United States
21
4M
18
2.33
0.14
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- Areas of investment
Summary
Silicon Catalyst is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Santa Clara.
The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 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 - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight quadric.io, Ayar Labs. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Electronics, Energy Efficiency.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Silicon Catalyst, startups are often financed by Uncork Capital, Trucks Venture Capital, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Founders Fund, Uncork Capital, Trucks Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Silicon Valley Bank, Playground Global, Pangaea Ventures.
The fund was created by Rick Lazansky.
Investor highlights
- Stage focus
- Check size
- 100K — 150K
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 21
- Lead investments
- 0
- Rounds per year
- 2.33
- Follow on index
- 0.14
- Investments by industry
- Semiconductor (12)
- Electronics (7)
- Artificial Intelligence (6)
- Software (6)
- Hardware (5) Show 23 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (13)
- Israel (2)
- Canada (2)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 18M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.62
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beam Semiconductor | 18 Dec 2019 | 3D Technology, Manufacturing, Product Design, Semiconductor, Wireless | Seed | Center District, Israel, Israel | |
| Lemurian Labs | 08 Sep 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Semiconductor, Electronics, Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) | Seed | 9M |
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