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Sparkbox Ventures

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 1.09
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Education
  • EdTech
  • Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

Sparkbox Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Auckland. The venture was found in Australia.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are EdTech, Artificial Intelligence. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Booktrack, Kami, Footfalls & Heartbeats. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Sparkbox Ventures, startups are often financed by New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, Valar Ventures, Global from Day One. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Global from Day One, Valar Ventures, Chintaka Ranatunga. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Reinventure Group, Y Combinator, Valar Ventures.

The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The typical startup value when the investment from Sparkbox Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Sparkbox Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aroa Biosurgery Ltd

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$13M01 May 2020 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Mohiomap

Analytics
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$593K01 Oct 2015 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Booktrack

Artificial Intelligence
EdTech
Education
Software
$5M21 Jul 2015 Devonport-Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand

Mish Guru

Brand Marketing
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$1M06 Jun 2015 New York, New York, United States

Kami

Apps
EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Primary Education
Productivity Tools
Secondary Education
Software
17 Feb 2015 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Glassjar

Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
Software
06 Oct 2014 Mountain View, California, United States

Business Intelligence
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Meeting Software
SaaS
Software
Task Management
15 Sep 2014 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Accounting
Digital Media
22 Jul 2014 Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Auror

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Real Time
Security
Software
30 Jun 2014 Auckland, New Zealand

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Total investments 25
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.09
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aroa Biosurgery Ltd

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$13M01 May 2020 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Mohiomap

Analytics
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$593K01 Oct 2015 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Booktrack

Artificial Intelligence
EdTech
Education
Software
$5M21 Jul 2015 Devonport-Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand

Mish Guru

Brand Marketing
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$1M06 Jun 2015 New York, New York, United States

Kami

Apps
EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Primary Education
Productivity Tools
Secondary Education
Software
17 Feb 2015 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Glassjar

Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
Software
06 Oct 2014 Mountain View, California, United States

Business Intelligence
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Meeting Software
SaaS
Software
Task Management
15 Sep 2014 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Accounting
Digital Media
22 Jul 2014 Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Auror

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Real Time
Security
Software
30 Jun 2014 Auckland, New Zealand
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