Start Fund
67
1M
62
5.58
3
0.06
24
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Start Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Start Fund, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Data Collective DCVC, Tuesday Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Andreessen Horowitz, Alexis Ohanian, Tuesday Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SV Angel, GV, Andreessen Horowitz.
The important activity for fund was in 2012. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Start Fund performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.
Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.
The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Education. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Comprehend Systems, ClassDojo, Science Exchange Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 67
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 24
- Rounds per year
- 5.58
- Follow on index
- 0.06
- Investments by industry
- Software (17)
- Mobile (13)
- Enterprise Software (11)
- Internet (10)
- Apps (6) Show 134 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (62)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Canada (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2012
- Number of Unicorns
- 4
- Number of Decacorns
- 4
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 164M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.97
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.23
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Betable | 05 Nov 2013 | Apps, Online Games, Gambling | Early Stage Venture | 18M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| 31 Jan 2016 | SaaS, Enterprise Software, Video Chat, Business Intelligence, Event Management, Media and Entertainment, Hospitality, Ticketing, Video Streaming, Video Conferencing | Seed | 1M | United States, Jersey City | |
| PhoneSys | 23 Aug 2011 | Telecommunications | Seed | United States, California, Mountain View |
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