StartFast Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Syracuse, United States

Total investments

50

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

42

Rounds per year

3.85

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareMarketplace

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
United States
Check size
500K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
50
Lead investments
8
Exits
2
Rounds per year
3.85
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (14)
  • Software (11)
  • Marketplace (9)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
  • Internet (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (47)
  • Mexico (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2013

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.32
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
KredosAI 04 Apr 2024 Software, FinTech Seed 1M United States, Washington, Bellevue
Mozzo Analytics 01 May 2013 Analytics, Search Engine, Ediscovery, Email Seed United States, New York, Syracuse
PumpJack Dataworks 02 Oct 2019 Information Technology, Cloud Data Services, Sports Seed 300K United States, Texas, Fort Worth
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