Start Smart Labs
5
3M
4
0.56
0.20
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- Areas of investment
Summary
Start Smart Labs is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.
Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Start Smart Labs works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Start Smart Labs is 5-10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Start Smart Labs, startups are often financed by Zetta Venture Partners, SparkLabs Accelerator, Polaris Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zetta Venture Partners, SparkLabs Accelerator, Polaris Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Zetta Venture Partners, SparkLabs Accelerator, Rivas Capital.
The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Big Data, Predictive Analytics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Falkonry, Gamalon For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 5
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 0.56
- Follow on index
- 0.20
- Investments by industry
- Artificial Intelligence (4)
- Machine Learning (4)
- Enterprise Software (2)
- Software (2)
- SaaS (2) Show 6 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (5)
- Peak activity year
- 2016
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.60
- Avg. company exit year
- 1
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MinHash | 12 May 2015 | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software | Seed | United States, California, Palo Alto |
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