Start Garden

Total investments

10

Average round size

244K

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.91

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileAppsEnterprise Software3D TechnologyInternet of ThingsmHealth

Summary

In 2012 was created Start Garden, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Grand Rapids.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Start Garden, startups are often financed by Microsoft Accelerator Seattle, Microsoft Accelerator, Jonathon Triest. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wakestream Ventures, N29 Capital Partners, M25. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wakestream Ventures, Karis Capital Partners, Invest Detroit.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2013. This Start Garden works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The fund was created by Rick DeVos.

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 most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Education. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Scanalytics, Sportsman Tracker.

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Total investments
10
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.91
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Software (3)
  • Enterprise Software (2)
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • Apps (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
Peak activity year
2013

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.70
Avg. company exit year
2

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fluency Mobile 06 Jan 2015 Apps Seed United States, Michigan, Grand Rapids

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