StartupLab

Type

Accelerator/Incubator, Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Oslo, Norway

Total investments

48

Average round size

777K

Portfolio companies

44

Rounds per year

4.00

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
Impact InvestingInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSMarketplaceBlockchain

Summary

StartupLab is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Oslo. The company was established in Europe in Norway.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Norway. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ardoq, Otovo, Otovo.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the StartupLab, startups are often financed by Alchemist Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Investinor, SINTEF TTO & Venture, Founders Fund AS. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nordic Makers, Founders Fund AS, Agder Energi Venture.

The current fund was established by Alexander Woxen.

The typical startup value when the investment from StartupLab is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this StartupLab works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailHardware
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Norway
Check size
100K — 300K

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
NOK 154000000
Fund raised date
2024-06-16

Analytics

Total investments
48
Lead investments
5
Exits
1
Rounds per year
4.00
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Software (15)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • SaaS (6)
  • Internet (4)
  • Marketplace (4)
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Investments by region
  • Norway (47)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
33M
Group Appearance index
0.48
Avg. company exit year
3

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Maindeck 01 Oct 2018 Seed 330K Oslo, Norway

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