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SparkLabs Global Ventures

Founders Bernard Moon Frank Meehan Hanjoo Lee Jay McCarthy Jimmy Kim Net Jacobsson

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Total investments 79
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 66
Rounds per year 7.90
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 8
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Internet
  • FinTech
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2013 was created SparkLabs Global Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this SparkLabs Global Ventures works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from SparkLabs Global Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SparkLabs Global Ventures, startups are often financed by SparkLabs Accelerator, Techstars, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars, Entrepreneur First, Kima Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wavemaker Partners, Bauer Media, NGP Capital.

For fund there is a 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 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Machine Learning. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Andela, Memebox, Deserve.

The current fund was established by Bernard Moon, Frank Meehan, Hanjoo Lee, Jay McCarthy, Jimmy Kim, Net Jacobsson. The overall number of key employees were 8.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NITRA, INC.

Financial Services
Software
$16M23 Aug 2022 -

Tella

EdTech
Education
$261K12 Mar 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Bitsensing

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Drones
Electronic Equipment and Instruments
Internet of Things
Robotics
Sensor
Smart Cities
Software
$1M01 Dec 2018 South Korea

Stipop

Apps
B2B
Developer APIs
12 Aug 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Gideon Brothers

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$2M23 Jul 2018 Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia

Internet of Things
$2M17 Jul 2018 South Korea

Populus

Automotive
Internet
Transportation
$750K06 May 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Messari

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Information Services
$1M07 Mar 2018 New York, United States

ClauseMatch

FinTech
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$1M29 Jun 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 79
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 7.90
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NITRA, INC.

Financial Services
Software
$16M23 Aug 2022 -

Tella

EdTech
Education
$261K12 Mar 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Bitsensing

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Drones
Electronic Equipment and Instruments
Internet of Things
Robotics
Sensor
Smart Cities
Software
$1M01 Dec 2018 South Korea

Stipop

Apps
B2B
Developer APIs
12 Aug 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Gideon Brothers

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$2M23 Jul 2018 Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia

Internet of Things
$2M17 Jul 2018 South Korea

Populus

Automotive
Internet
Transportation
$750K06 May 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Messari

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Information Services
$1M07 Mar 2018 New York, United States

ClauseMatch

FinTech
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$1M29 Jun 2017 London, England, United Kingdom
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