Sterling.VC

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

49

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

4.90

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateInternetSoftwareMobileGamingArtificial IntelligenceeSportsSecurityFantasy SportsCryptocurrency

Summary

Sterling.VC appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

This organization was formed by Farzam Kamel, Rohit Gupta. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Sterling.VC, startups are often financed by Expansion Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Rosecliff Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Expansion Venture Capital, Courtside Ventures, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Social Starts, Lux Capital.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Real Estate, Artificial Intelligence. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Rockets of Awesome, Doppler Labs, Guilded Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

This Sterling.VC works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Blockchain/Crypto/Web3Gaming/Esports
Stage focus
Series BSeedSeries A

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
4.90
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (8)
  • Gaming (7)
  • Real Estate (7)
  • Software (6)
  • eSports (6)
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Investments by region
  • Switzerland (2)
  • United States (42)
  • Canada (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
255M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
3
Avg. multiplicator
0.04
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Feature 26 May 2024 Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment, Content Creators Seed 1M United States, California, Los Angeles
Pillow 20 Jan 2015 Real Estate, Internet, Property Management, Hospitality Seed 2M United States, California, San Francisco

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