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StartFast

Founders Chuck Stormon James Shomar Martin Babinec Michael Quigley Nasir Ali

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Total investments 50
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 3.85
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Marketplace
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet
Summary

In 2011 was created StartFast, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Syracuse.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. When the investment is from StartFast the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Opposing the other organizations, this StartFast works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Chuck Stormon, Martin Babinec, Nasir Ali.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venture Capital Fund of New England, The Brandery, Stonehenge Growth Equity. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wavecrest Growth Partners, Venture Capital Fund of New England, The Brandery.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SpinCar. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

KredosAI

FinTech
Software
$1M04 Apr 2024 Bellevue, Washington, United States

The Reset Agency

Internet
Leisure
Marketplace
$1M14 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

The Reset Agency

Internet
Leisure
Marketplace
20 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

BLACKBIRD.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Homeland Security
Journalism
Machine Learning
National Security
Natural Language Processing
Predictive Analytics
Public Safety
SaaS
$20M15 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Kanarys

Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$5M15 Feb 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Patient Pattern

Health Care
Real Time
$2M26 Jan 2022 Buffalo, New York, United States

Hitch

Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
$1M01 Nov 2021 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

BLACKBIRD.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Homeland Security
Journalism
Machine Learning
National Security
Natural Language Processing
Predictive Analytics
Public Safety
SaaS
$10M21 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

CYRISMA

Cyber Security
SaaS
Software
$50K01 May 2020 Rochester, New York, United States

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Total investments 50
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 3.85
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.32

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

KredosAI

FinTech
Software
$1M04 Apr 2024 Bellevue, Washington, United States

The Reset Agency

Internet
Leisure
Marketplace
$1M14 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

The Reset Agency

Internet
Leisure
Marketplace
20 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

BLACKBIRD.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Homeland Security
Journalism
Machine Learning
National Security
Natural Language Processing
Predictive Analytics
Public Safety
SaaS
$20M15 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Kanarys

Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$5M15 Feb 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Patient Pattern

Health Care
Real Time
$2M26 Jan 2022 Buffalo, New York, United States

Hitch

Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
$1M01 Nov 2021 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

BLACKBIRD.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Homeland Security
Journalism
Machine Learning
National Security
Natural Language Processing
Predictive Analytics
Public Safety
SaaS
$10M21 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

CYRISMA

Cyber Security
SaaS
Software
$50K01 May 2020 Rochester, New York, United States
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