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Startup Factory

Founders Ofer Ariely

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 7
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Semiconductor
  • Product Design
  • Manufacturing
  • Network Hardware
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

United Parents Online Ltd

Communities
Security
Software
$900K01 Jan 2010 Tel Aviv District

Rounds

Internet
Messaging
Social Network
Video Chat
$350K01 Nov 2008 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Jinni Media

Ad Network
Ad Targeting
Personalization
Semantic Search
Software
Video on Demand
$1M01 Jan 2008 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Enigma Semiconductor

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$12M24 Mar 2004 San Jose, California, United States

Xelerated

Product Design
Semiconductor
Software
$12M16 Oct 2001 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 6M
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

United Parents Online Ltd

Communities
Security
Software
$900K01 Jan 2010 Tel Aviv District

Rounds

Internet
Messaging
Social Network
Video Chat
$350K01 Nov 2008 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Jinni Media

Ad Network
Ad Targeting
Personalization
Semantic Search
Software
Video on Demand
$1M01 Jan 2008 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Enigma Semiconductor

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$12M24 Mar 2004 San Jose, California, United States

Xelerated

Product Design
Semiconductor
Software
$12M16 Oct 2001 San Jose, California, United States
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