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StartEngine

Founders Howard Marks Paul Kessler Ronald Miller

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Total investments 370
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$396K
Portfolio companies 323
Rounds per year 28.46
Lead investments 27
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 6
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • E-Commerce
  • Apps
  • Internet
Summary

StartEngine appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2014. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the West Hollywood.

The current fund was established by Howard Marks, Paul Kessler, Ronald Miller.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the StartEngine, startups are often financed by Serra Ventures, SeedInvest, Kartheek Pulavarthi. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kartheek Pulavarthi, Brightstone Venture Capital, Blueberry Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Meyer Equity, Y Combinator, GSR Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Blockchain, Health Care. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight tZero, Elio Motors, ZipZap.

Opposing the other organizations, this StartEngine works on 28 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from StartEngine is 5-10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

The BuildClub

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E-Commerce
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Same Day Delivery
$1M22 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Redivivus

Industrial
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$1M26 Jan 2023 -

Fanbase

Social Media
$3M23 Sep 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Fanbase

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$2M28 Dec 2021 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

SapientX

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Consumer Electronics
Mobile
Robotics
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$1M17 Dec 2021 California, United States

LinkDyn Robotics

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Industrial Automation
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$380K29 Nov 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

The Bitter Housewife

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Wholesale
$132K01 Sep 2021 Oregon, Ohio, United States

TransCrypts

$380K30 Jul 2021 -

T4L

Transportation
$105K20 Jul 2021 Naples, Florida, United States

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Total investments 370
Average round size 396K
Rounds per year 28.46
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 27
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.05

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

The BuildClub

Apps
E-Commerce
Mobile Apps
Same Day Delivery
$1M22 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Redivivus

Industrial
Manufacturing
$1M26 Jan 2023 -

Fanbase

Social Media
$3M23 Sep 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Fanbase

Social Media
$2M28 Dec 2021 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

SapientX

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Consumer Electronics
Mobile
Robotics
Software
$1M17 Dec 2021 California, United States

LinkDyn Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Robotics
$380K29 Nov 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

The Bitter Housewife

Food and Beverage
Wholesale
$132K01 Sep 2021 Oregon, Ohio, United States

TransCrypts

$380K30 Jul 2021 -

T4L

Transportation
$105K20 Jul 2021 Naples, Florida, United States
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