Sputnik ATX

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Austin, United States

Total investments

118

Average round size

349K

Portfolio companies

70

Rounds per year

16.86

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyB2BHealth CareSaaSMobile AppsLifestyle

Summary

Sputnik ATX appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2017. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Austin.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Sputnik ATX, startups are often financed by Texas Venture Labs, Shasta Ventures, Next Coast Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yeoman's Capital, Youbi Capital, Transform Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Watertower Ventures, Quake Capital Partners, Next Coast Ventures.

This organization was formed by Joe Merrill, Oksana Malysheva. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Sputnik ATX works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 56 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Sputnik ATX the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile Advertising, Financial Services. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vertalo, Newchip.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Check size
100K — 500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
118
Lead investments
6
Exits
1
Rounds per year
16.86
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (37)
  • Information Technology (19)
  • Health Care (17)
  • Mobile Apps (13)
  • Financial Services (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (90)
  • Nigeria (3)
  • Brazil (2)
  • Panama (2)
  • Switzerland (3)
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Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
8M
Group Appearance index
0.14
Avg. company exit year
1

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