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Sterling Partners

Founders Eric D. Becker Michael Bronfein

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 0.73
Lead investments 7
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 5
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Education
  • Analytics
  • Computer
Summary

Sterling Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1983. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Miami.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Sterling Partners performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 50 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

This organization was formed by Eric D. Becker, Michael Bronfein.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cortera, Panopto, SAVO. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Medical.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Sterling Partners, startups are often financed by William Guttman, Actua Corporation, ABN AMRO Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sapphire Ventures, The Abell Venture Fund, TEDCO. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Fidelity Ventures, Battery Ventures, Wells Fargo Securities.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CHAMPtitles

Blockchain
Information Services
Information Technology
$12M22 Sep 2022 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Cerebro Capital

Computer
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
Web Development
$5M17 Apr 2020 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Fancy Sprinkles

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
26 Sep 2018 Burbank, California, United States

Cerebro Capital

Computer
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
Web Development
$2M18 Apr 2018 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

UPshow

Digital Signage
Marketing
SaaS
Software
$3M11 Apr 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Avectra

Consulting
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Web Hosting
$26M25 Oct 2007 Virginia, United States

SAVO

Analytics
Computer
Sales
Software
$10M01 Sep 2005 Chicago, Illinois, United States

AnAerobics

Developer Platform
Health Care
Waste Management
$15M15 Oct 2002 Rochester, New York, United States

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
$45M03 Apr 2001 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 30
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 0.73
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.47

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CHAMPtitles

Blockchain
Information Services
Information Technology
$12M22 Sep 2022 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Cerebro Capital

Computer
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
Web Development
$5M17 Apr 2020 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Fancy Sprinkles

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
26 Sep 2018 Burbank, California, United States

Cerebro Capital

Computer
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
Web Development
$2M18 Apr 2018 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

UPshow

Digital Signage
Marketing
SaaS
Software
$3M11 Apr 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Avectra

Consulting
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Web Hosting
$26M25 Oct 2007 Virginia, United States

SAVO

Analytics
Computer
Sales
Software
$10M01 Sep 2005 Chicago, Illinois, United States

AnAerobics

Developer Platform
Health Care
Waste Management
$15M15 Oct 2002 Rochester, New York, United States

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
$45M03 Apr 2001 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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