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Startup Capital Ventures

Founders Danny Lui John Davidson John Dean

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Total investments 58
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 34
Rounds per year 3.22
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 10
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Predictive Analytics
  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
Summary

Startup Capital Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2005. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park. The company was established in North America in United States.

The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Startup Capital Ventures works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The current fund was established by John Davidson, John Dean. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline WhiteHat Security, TF Holdings, VideoAmp 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 requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Advertising.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Startup Capital Ventures, startups are often financed by Anthem Venture Partners, ZenShin Capital, Tsingyuan Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Altos Ventures, ZenShin Capital, Seraph Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StarVest Partners, Sequoia Capital, Grace Beauty Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Glow

Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
$24M08 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Breinify

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
Natural Language Processing
Personalization
Predictive Analytics
$6M10 Apr 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

HYAS

Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Network Management Software
Network Security
Security
Systems and Information Management
$15M25 Feb 2021 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Breinify

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
Natural Language Processing
Personalization
Predictive Analytics
$3M14 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Kuprion

3D Printing
Electronics
Nanotechnology
$5M29 Mar 2019 San Jose, California, United States

Interset

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
18 Jan 2019 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Interset

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
17 Dec 2018 Canada, Ontario

HYAS

Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Network Management Software
Network Security
Security
Systems and Information Management
$6M24 Sep 2018 Victoria, British Columbia

W&W Sens

Optical Communication
Semiconductor
Sensor
$3M10 Aug 2018 California, United States
News
Breinfy Raises $11M in Seed Funding

– Breinify is a San Francisco CA-based company that enables enterprises to deliver personalized and relevant digital experiences.
– The company raised $11M in seed funding.
– The round was led by Gutbrain Ventures and PBJ Capital, with participation from Streamlined Ventures, The CXO Fund, Amino Capital, Startup Capital Ventures and Sterling Road.
– The new investment will be used to continue to expand operations and product features.

Breinify announces $11M seed to bring data science to the marketing team

– Breinify, a startup working to apply data science to personalization, raised $11m funding.
– The funding was led by Gutbrain Ventures and PBJ Capital with participation from Streamlined Ventures, CXO Fund, Amino Capital, Startup Capital Ventures and Sterling Road.
– The company is growing fast and has 24 employees, up from 10 last year.

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Total investments 58
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 3.22
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.76

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Glow

Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
$24M08 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Breinify

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
Natural Language Processing
Personalization
Predictive Analytics
$6M10 Apr 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

HYAS

Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Network Management Software
Network Security
Security
Systems and Information Management
$15M25 Feb 2021 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Breinify

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
Natural Language Processing
Personalization
Predictive Analytics
$3M14 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Kuprion

3D Printing
Electronics
Nanotechnology
$5M29 Mar 2019 San Jose, California, United States

Interset

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
18 Jan 2019 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Interset

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
17 Dec 2018 Canada, Ontario

HYAS

Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Network Management Software
Network Security
Security
Systems and Information Management
$6M24 Sep 2018 Victoria, British Columbia

W&W Sens

Optical Communication
Semiconductor
Sensor
$3M10 Aug 2018 California, United States
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