Starfish Ventures

Summary

Starfish Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The main department of described VC is located in the Melbourne. The venture was found in Australia.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Starfish Ventures, startups are often financed by Startmate, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Technology Venture Partners, 500 Startups, Versant Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Inbio Ventures, DFJ, Wesfarmers.

The typical startup value when the investment from Starfish Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2012. This Starfish Ventures works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010.

The current fund was established by John Dyson, Michael Panaccio. The overall number of key employees were 2.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Telecommunications. For fund there is no 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 ICIX, ZoomSystems, Ausra. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.