Start-Up Chile

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Santiago, Chile

Total investments

982

Average round size

65K

Portfolio companies

894

Rounds per year

70.14

Lead investments

88

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

25

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSAppsEducationSocial Media

Summary

Start-Up Chile is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2010. The fund was located in South America if to be more exact in Chile. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Santiago.

The fund was created by Charles Van Norman, Nicolu00e1s Shea. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Start-Up Chile, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Wayra, U.S. Department of Agriculture. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NXTP Labs, CORFO, Techstars. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SOSV, Parallel18, Mountain Nazca.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Social Media. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CoContest (GoPillar), Tutum, GlampingHub. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this Start-Up Chile works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Start-Up Chile is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in more than 49 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50-100 thousands dollars.

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Investor highlights

Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
982
Lead investments
88
Exits
25
Rounds per year
70.14
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Software (205)
  • E-Commerce (164)
  • Internet (110)
  • Information Technology (88)
  • Education (87)
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Investments by region
  • Chile (382)
  • United States (231)
  • Argentina (67)
  • Brazil (45)
  • India (23)
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Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
773K
Group Appearance index
0.10
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kobai 01 Sep 2021 Analytics, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, Consumer Research Seed 31K Region Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
Konzup Hub 01 Feb 2019 Seed 40K

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