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Star Ventures

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Total investments 136
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 73
Rounds per year 4.39
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 43
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Insurobo

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Insurance
22 Jun 2022 Kangwon-do, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Savle

Asset Management
21 Jun 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Biotechnology
$1M18 Feb 2019 Shanghai, China

Vidyo

Collaboration
Developer APIs
Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
PaaS
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$11M19 Jan 2011 New Jersey, United States

Vidyo

Collaboration
Developer APIs
Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
PaaS
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$25M01 Apr 2010 New Jersey, United States

Vidyo

Collaboration
Developer APIs
Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
PaaS
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$15M05 Mar 2009 New Jersey, United States

Siano Mobile Silicon

Hardware
Semiconductor
Software
$17M13 Aug 2008 Israel, North District, Israel

Vidyo

Collaboration
Developer APIs
Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
PaaS
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$3M10 Aug 2008 New Jersey, United States

OraMetrix

Dental
Fitness
Health Care
$20M02 Jul 2008 Richardson, Texas, United States

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Total investments 136
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 4.39
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 43
Group Appearance index 0.99

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Insurobo

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Insurance
22 Jun 2022 Kangwon-do, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Savle

Asset Management
21 Jun 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Biotechnology
$1M18 Feb 2019 Shanghai, China

Vidyo

Collaboration
Developer APIs
Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
PaaS
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$11M19 Jan 2011 New Jersey, United States

Vidyo

Collaboration
Developer APIs
Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
PaaS
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$25M01 Apr 2010 New Jersey, United States

Vidyo

Collaboration
Developer APIs
Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
PaaS
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$15M05 Mar 2009 New Jersey, United States

Siano Mobile Silicon

Hardware
Semiconductor
Software
$17M13 Aug 2008 Israel, North District, Israel

Vidyo

Collaboration
Developer APIs
Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
PaaS
Software
Video
Video Chat
Video Conferencing
$3M10 Aug 2008 New Jersey, United States

OraMetrix

Dental
Fitness
Health Care
$20M02 Jul 2008 Richardson, Texas, United States
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