Startmate

Type

Accelerator/Incubator, Angel Group/Syndicate

Status

Active

Location

Melbourne, Australia

Total investments

114

Average round size

458K

Portfolio companies

108

Rounds per year

8.14

Lead investments

38

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSAppsMobile AppsEducation

Summary

In 2010 was created Startmate, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Melbourne.

The fund was created by Niki Scevak.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bugcrowd, Ninja Blocks, Vero. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Apps, SaaS. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Startmate, startups are often financed by Blackbird Ventures (Australia), Thomas Rice, Melbourne Accelerator Program. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Blackbird Ventures (Australia), Thomas Rice. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Costanoa Ventures, Sydney Angels, Square Peg Capital.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this Startmate performs on 24 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Pre-Seed
Geo focus
Australia, New Zealand
Check size
From 25K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
114
Lead investments
38
Exits
4
Rounds per year
8.14
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Software (35)
  • Information Technology (19)
  • Internet (14)
  • Apps (13)
  • Mobile (10)
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Investments by region
  • Australia (70)
  • New Zealand (11)
  • United States (23)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2024

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
9M
Group Appearance index
0.58
Avg. company exit year
3
Avg. multiplicator
5.28

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Awecom 01 May 2018 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Video, Video Streaming Seed 0 United States, California, San Francisco
Graphics et al. 08 Feb 2024 Seed Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Switchboard 12 Jun 2024 Seed 1M New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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