Starfish Ventures

company

About

Starfish Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on information technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies.

  • 11 - 50

Details

Industries
Finance,Information Technology,Venture Capital
Founded date
Dec 1, 2001
Number Of Employee
11 - 50
Operating Status
Active
Investor Type
Venture Capital

Starfish Ventures is a venture capital firm. That specializes in seed, start-up, expansion, emerging growth, early venture, mid venture, late venture, growth capital, middle market, and buyouts investments. The company prefers to invests in life sciences, clean technology, materials science, and information technology. Within life sciences, it focuses on biotechnology, medical devices, therapeutics, and drug development. Within clean technology, the firm invests in energy, water, and other environmental technologies. Within information technology, it considers investments in software, mobile, Internet and cloud based enterprise systems, semiconductor, instrumentation, hardware, and telecommunications.

It seeks to exit its investments through mergers and acquisitions, trade sale, or an initial public offer within two to five years. Starfish Ventures was founded by John Dyson and Michael Panaccio in 2001, and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Investments

Number of Investments
Number of Lead Investments
2
2
Starfish Ventures has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on Oct 9, 2013, when Nitro raised $3.10M.
Date Company Name
Round Money Raised Industry Lead Investor
Oct 9, 2013 Nitro
Series A $3.10M Collaboration Yes
Apr 3, 2012 Nitro
Series A $3.50M Collaboration Yes