Star Ventures

Status

Active

Location

Tel Aviv, Israel

Total investments

136

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

73

Rounds per year

4.39

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

43

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSemiconductorTelecommunicationsWirelessNetwork Hardware

Summary

Star Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1992. The main department of described VC is located in the Mu00fcnchen. The venture was found in Europe in Germany.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Nanomix, VPIsystems, Scale Eight. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, Wireless. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Star Ventures, startups are often financed by Pitango Venture Capital, Next47, InterWest Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Viola Ventures, InterWest Partners, Goldman Sachs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Viola Credit, Menlo Ventures, Rho Ventures.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The typical startup value when the investment from Star Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2006. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Star Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
136
Lead investments
9
Exits
43
Rounds per year
4.39
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Software (41)
  • Telecommunications (40)
  • Enterprise Software (29)
  • Information Technology (22)
  • Manufacturing (21)
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Investments by region
  • United States (104)
  • Israel (19)
  • Austria (1)
  • Germany (3)
  • United Kingdom (3)
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Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
46M
Group Appearance index
0.99
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
1.45
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BroadLight 27 Aug 2001 Semiconductor, Communication Hardware, Network Hardware Early Stage Venture 10M United States, California, San Jose
Xtera 29 Jan 2001 Data Center, Telecommunications, Optical Communication Early Stage Venture 110M United States, Texas

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