StartCaps Ventures

Total investments

20

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

1.82

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceSoftwareMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareiOSAndroidCustomer ServiceShipping

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
1.82
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • Mobile (8)
  • SaaS (5)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Shipping (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • Brazil (2)
  • Spain (3)
  • Colombia (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
481M
Group Appearance index
0.27
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
3.81
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
One-Zone 12 Apr 2019 Consumer Early Stage Venture Hunan, China, China
AltspaceVR 11 Sep 2014 Software, Virtual Reality, Digital Media, Virtualization Seed 5M United States, California, Redwood City
SavR 30 Oct 2018 Seed 1M Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
ShipBob 18 May 2016 Logistics, E-Commerce, Software, Mobile, SaaS, Shipping Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Illinois, Chicago

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