Spark
9
3M
8
0.82
2
0.11
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Spark is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The fund was located in Australia. The main department of described VC is located in the Ngahere.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Spark, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Spark Capital, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Spark Capital, Y Combinator, Uncork Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Visa, Tencent Holdings.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Spark works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The important activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.
The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile Advertising, Social Media. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Paystack, Timehop, Coin. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 9
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 0.82
- Follow on index
- 0.11
- Investments by industry
- Internet (5)
- E-Commerce (2)
- Hospitality (2)
- Travel (2)
- Tourism (2) Show 24 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (2)
- Australia (1)
- Nigeria (6)
- Peak activity year
- 2013
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 25M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.56
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Avg. multiplicator
- 7.33
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paystack | 19 Dec 2016 | Internet, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Finance | Seed | 1M | Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria |
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