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StartCaps Ventures

Founders Ignacio Vilela

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 1.82
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 3
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • SaaS
  • E-Commerce
  • Shipping
Summary

StartCaps Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Comparing to the other companies, this StartCaps Ventures performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The fund was created by Ignacio Vilela. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the StartCaps Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, FundersClub, Ullas Naik. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Augusta Investments LLC (Urizen), Adeyemi Ajao, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by monashees, FJ Labs, Y Combinator.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, iOS. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Rappi, 99, ShipBob.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ShipBob

E-Commerce
Logistics
Mobile
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$4M18 May 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Rappi

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Food Delivery
02 May 2016 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Qwil

Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Sharing Economy
$125K27 Dec 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

ShipBob

E-Commerce
Logistics
Mobile
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$1M29 Apr 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sentisis

Customer Service
Enterprise Software
Social Media
Software
$1M17 Mar 2015 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Nurep

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
mHealth
Mobile
$1M28 Jan 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

AltspaceVR

Digital Media
Software
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$5M11 Sep 2014 Redwood City, California, United States

Authy

Cyber Security
Developer APIs
Mobile
Security
$2M08 Sep 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

One Month | Learn to Code in 30 Days

EdTech
Education
Web Development
$770K24 Jun 2014 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 1.82
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.27

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ShipBob

E-Commerce
Logistics
Mobile
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$4M18 May 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Rappi

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Food Delivery
02 May 2016 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Qwil

Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Sharing Economy
$125K27 Dec 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

ShipBob

E-Commerce
Logistics
Mobile
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$1M29 Apr 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sentisis

Customer Service
Enterprise Software
Social Media
Software
$1M17 Mar 2015 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Nurep

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
mHealth
Mobile
$1M28 Jan 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

AltspaceVR

Digital Media
Software
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$5M11 Sep 2014 Redwood City, California, United States

Authy

Cyber Security
Developer APIs
Mobile
Security
$2M08 Sep 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

One Month | Learn to Code in 30 Days

EdTech
Education
Web Development
$770K24 Jun 2014 New York, New York, United States
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