Smarthub

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

52

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

6.50

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

1

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyB2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEdTechEducation

Summary

SmartHub is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2015. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Kaliningrad. The company was established in Europe in Russian Federation.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the SmartHub, startups are often financed by Practica Capital, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Plug and Play. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bogdan Iarovoi, Frontier Ventures, iAngels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vostok Emerging Finance, Vendep Capital, RTP Global.

This organization was formed by Bogdan Iarovoi, Olga Dorofeeva. The overall number of key employees were 3.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Digital Media. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ClassTag, Storyhunter, Octi.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from SmartHub is 5-10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this SmartHub performs on 26 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
GeneralistSeed
Geo focus
United States, Midwest

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
52
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
6.50
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (10)
  • Education (10)
  • Internet (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Software (8)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • United States (33)
  • Australia (1)
  • China (2)
  • Russia (2)
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Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.46
Avg. company exit year
2

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ClassTag 08 Jun 2020 Internet, Apps, Education Seed 5M United States, New York, New York
Intento 01 Mar 2018 Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Developer APIs Seed 650K United States, California, Berkeley
Verse Gaming 19 Sep 2022 Gaming, Marketplace Seed 585K United States, New York, Brooklyn
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