Sparkland Capital
Venture Capital
Active
San Jose, United States
29
3M
25
3.62
1
0.14
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Geo focus
- 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) Show 61 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (26)
- Canada (2)
- India (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2016
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- 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 |
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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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