White Star Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

166

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

100

Rounds per year

9.76

Lead investments

38

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

12

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechRetailInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceCreditBlockchain

Summary

White Star Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

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. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Apps. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Dollar Shave Club, Meero, KeyMe.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the White Star Capital, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Real Ventures, Ravin Gandhi. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Real Ventures, Portag3 Ventures, Global Founders Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, ff Venture Capital.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this White Star Capital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from White Star Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The current fund was established by Christian Hernandez, Eric Martineau-Fortin, Jean-Francois Marcoux. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistBlockchain/Crypto/Web3EcommerceHealthcareFintech Show 1 more
Stage focus
GeneralistSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
5M — 20M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 360000000
Fund raised date
2021-10-25

Analytics

Total investments
166
Lead investments
38
Exits
12
Rounds per year
9.76
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (30)
  • Financial Services (25)
  • E-Commerce (24)
  • Software (21)
  • Blockchain (15)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (11)
  • Canada (38)
  • United States (41)
  • France (13)
  • United Kingdom (26)
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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
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
69M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
5.46
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Blueberry Protocol 04 Jun 2024 Software, Finance, Blockchain, Lending Early Stage Venture 2M
Eyeball Games 20 Jul 2023 Gaming, Online Games Seed 1M Central Region, Singapore, Singapore

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