Spire Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

34

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

32

Rounds per year

1.42

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEducationCyber SecurityCloud Data ServicesTelecommunicationsMedia and EntertainmentOutsourcingWeb Hosting

Summary

In 2000 was created Spire Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Spire Capital, startups are often financed by Bank of Montreal (BMO), Stolberg Equity Partners, Meritage Funds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Stolberg Equity Partners, Meritage Funds, Cornerstone Equity Investors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Telecom Partners, Stolberg Equity Partners, Meritage Funds.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Internet. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lighthouse eDiscovery, Tonchidot, Inflow. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 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.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The real fund results show that this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. When the investment is from Spire Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. This Spire Capital works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Media/ContentEdtechTelecommunications
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
15M — 125M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 291500000
Fund raised date
2020-12-03

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
2
Exits
15
Rounds per year
1.42
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Telecommunications (5)
  • Cloud Data Services (3)
  • Education (3)
  • Web Hosting (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (31)
  • Brazil (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Japan (1)
Peak activity year
2010

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
36M
Group Appearance index
0.26
Avg. company exit year
21

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Tonchidot 30 Sep 2010 Mobile, Content, Augmented Reality, Consumer Electronics, iOS Early Stage Venture 12M Chiyoda, Japan

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