SmartGateVC

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Glendale, United States

Total investments

26

Average round size

522K

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

3.71

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.19

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareHospitalLifestyleComputer VisionPredictive AnalyticsWearablesNatural Language Processing

Summary

SmartGateVC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Armenia. The main department of described VC is located in the Yerevan.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The current fund was established by Ashot Arzumanyan, Hambardzum Kaghketsyan, Vazgen Hakobjanyan.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the SmartGateVC, startups are often financed by Granatus Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Shanda Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Granatus Ventures, HIVE Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Sierra Ventures, Shanda Group.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Wearables, Machine Learning. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Krisp.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataHealthcareBiotech/Life SciencesSecurityIoT
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
ArmeniaUnited States
Check size
50K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
8
Rounds per year
3.71
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (14)
  • Machine Learning (10)
  • Computer Vision (8)
  • Software (6)
  • Health Care (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
  • Armenia (4)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
66K
Group Appearance index
0.38

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
10 Apr 2018 Health Care, Wellness, Lifestyle, Predictive Analytics, Wearables Seed 135K United States, California, Glendale
Fruitometry 10 Jul 2021 Horticulture, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AgTech, Data Visualization, Agriculture Early Stage Venture 1M Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland
TACTUN 08 May 2024 Seed

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