Sparkbox Ventures
24
1M
18
1.09
2
0.25
2
- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 24
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 1.09
- Follow on index
- 0.25
- Investments by industry
- Software (12)
- Education (6)
- EdTech (5)
- Artificial Intelligence (4)
- Manufacturing (4) Show 38 more
- Investments by region
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- New Zealand (17)
- United States (2)
- Japan (2)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Namibia (1) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2014
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 2M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.67
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booktrack | 21 Jul 2015 | Software, Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, Education | Early Stage Venture | 5M | Auckland, New Zealand, Devonport-Takapuna |
| LEEFT | 25 Oct 2020 | Logistics, Ride Sharing, Food Delivery, Air Transportation | Seed | 200K | Ontario, Waterloo, Canada |
| Aroa Biosurgery Ltd | 01 May 2020 | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device, Life Science | Late Stage Venture | 13M | Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland |
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