Sparkland Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Jose, United States

Total investments

29

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

3.62

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecuritySecurityVirtual RealityInternet of ThingsVideo Streaming

Summary

In 2014 was created Sparkland Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Jose.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This Sparkland Capital works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Sparkland Capital the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sliver.tv, Haystack TV, Vango. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Software.

We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Sparkland Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Wei Guo, The Venture Reality Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Colopl Next, Zillionize Angel, ZhenFund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, The Venture Reality Fund, Sierra Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
CybersecurityAI/Big DataBlockchain/Crypto/Web3AR/VRRobotics Show 2 more
Geo focus
BahrainCambodiaChinaCyprusEast Timor Show 33 more
Check size
1M — 50M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
29
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
3.62
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • Virtual Reality (7)
  • Video Streaming (7)
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
  • Internet (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (26)
  • Canada (2)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
252M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Rock Content 26 Apr 2016 Internet, Enterprise Software, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Advertising, Content Marketing, Freelance Early Stage Venture 3M United States, Boca Raton, Florida
Vango 28 May 2015 E-Commerce, Internet, Data Visualization, Art Seed 2M United States, California, San Francisco
Zeplin 24 Nov 2015 Software, Mobile, SaaS, Mobile Apps, Developer Tools, Product Design Seed 1M United States, California, San Francisco

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