Investor profile

Start Fund

Venture Capital · Founded 2011 · London, United Kingdom

48 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $193M invested · 55 investments · Investor rank #10,440 · Last investment 8/2016

Portfolio companies 48 ↑ 23% 5y

Decacorns 0

Thoroughbreds 6

Power Law #302Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 2%

Portfolio analysis

Where Start Fund’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 48 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA183
Canada2
India2
UK2
Argentina1
Cuba1
Netherlands1

By sectorCount

Enterprise Software48
Fintech28
Media20
Health16
Security16
Transportation16
Marketing15
Education11
Telecom8
Food6
Fashion5
Real Estate4

By stage enteredCount

Seed149
Series A35
Series B+6

By growth stageCount

Early Growth107
Breakout Stage65
Late Growth20

Portfolio market map

Inside Start Fund’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 48 tracked.

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

SonderMind Wellness Centers

Health · Unicorn

$1.1B

Lucid

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

Transportation · Unicorn

Claravine (Formerly Tracking First)

RiskLens (Formerly Cxoware)

Portfolio founders

Where Start Fund’s portfolio founders come from.

124 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States99
United Kingdom6
India4
Colombia3
Argentina1
Canada1
Greece1
Indonesia1
Switzerland1
United Arab Emirates1

UniversityCount

Stanford University Graduate School of Business6
Brigham Young University - Idaho4
Harvard Business School4
University of California, Berkeley4
Arizona State University3
Harvard University3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
Universiry of California, Davis3
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania3
Brigham Young University2

Previous companyCount

McKinsey & Company6
Itron3
Lehman Brothers3
Microsoft3
Alphabet | Google2
Bain & Company2
Barnes-Jewish Hospital2
Boston Consulting Group2
BrainStorm2
Byutickets2

How Start Fund stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

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500 Global

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#2 rank 1,187 companies $4.5T portfolio

Kleiner Perkins

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#51 rank 776 companies $8.1T portfolio

Index Ventures

Venture Capital · London

#56 rank 677 companies $1.2T portfolio

NEA

Venture Capital · Menlo Park

#36 rank 1,186 companies $2.5T portfolio

Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.