Startup Factory

Total investments

8

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

7

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
SoftwareManufacturingProduct DesignPersonalizationSemiconductorElectronicsNetwork HardwareVideo on DemandAd TargetingAd Network

Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Herzliya. The venture was found in Asia in Israel.

This organization was formed by Ofer Ariely. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Xelerated, Jinni, Xelerated Holdings. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Semiconductor, Messaging. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Israel. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

Comparing to the other companies, this Startup Factory performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2008. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the Startup Factory, startups are often financed by Atlas Venture, Alta Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Atlas Venture, Alta Partners, TVM Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Atlas Venture, Alta Partners, DFJ TelAviv Venture Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • Semiconductor (4)
  • Product Design (2)
  • Manufacturing (2)
  • Network Hardware (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
  • Sweden (2)
  • Israel (3)
Peak activity year
2004

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
12

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Rounds 01 Nov 2008 Internet, Messaging, Social Network, Video Chat Seed 350K Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

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