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Start Capital

Founders Paolo Rubatto

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 1.92
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Customer Service
  • Apps
  • Mobile
Summary

The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

The fund was created by Paolo Rubatto. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Opposing the other organizations, this Start Capital works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline TravelPerk, LiveNinja, Mela Artisans For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Software. The fund has no exact preference 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the Start Capital, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, Gary Stiffelman, Click Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Plug and Play, 500 Startups, Kima Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tamiami Angel Funds, Plug and Play, NXTP Labs.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oliva Therapy

Health Care
mHealth
Personal Health
Therapeutics
Wellness
31 Dec 2020 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Qulab

Artificial Intelligence
Chemical
Cloud Computing
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Quantum Computing
21 Nov 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Texel

Software
Sports
Video Streaming
$3M12 Sep 2018 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Reps AI

Artificial Intelligence
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Technical Support
$1M01 Jun 2018 Israel, Tel Aviv District

Pops (Aloa, Inc.)

Hardware
iOS
Mobile Apps
Photo Editing
$2M14 Sep 2017 New York, New York, United States

Paygilant

Banking
Cyber Security
E-Commerce
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Mobile
Mobile Payments
02 Feb 2017 Tel Aviv District

LiveNeighborly

Home Services
01 Jan 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Cozymeal

Catering
Cooking
Marketplace
Travel
30 Nov 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Business Travel
Software
Ticketing
Travel
01 Jul 2015 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Total investments 23
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.92
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oliva Therapy

Health Care
mHealth
Personal Health
Therapeutics
Wellness
31 Dec 2020 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Qulab

Artificial Intelligence
Chemical
Cloud Computing
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Quantum Computing
21 Nov 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Texel

Software
Sports
Video Streaming
$3M12 Sep 2018 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Reps AI

Artificial Intelligence
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Technical Support
$1M01 Jun 2018 Israel, Tel Aviv District

Pops (Aloa, Inc.)

Hardware
iOS
Mobile Apps
Photo Editing
$2M14 Sep 2017 New York, New York, United States

Paygilant

Banking
Cyber Security
E-Commerce
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Mobile
Mobile Payments
02 Feb 2017 Tel Aviv District

LiveNeighborly

Home Services
01 Jan 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Cozymeal

Catering
Cooking
Marketplace
Travel
30 Nov 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Business Travel
Software
Ticketing
Travel
01 Jul 2015 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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