Netherlands · 
What does Rockstart invest in?
Rockstart invests most often at Seed and Pre-seed (75% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Agriculture, Smartgrid and Renewable.
Rockstart highlights
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17 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Pre-seed: 75% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 53 rounds, median $329K
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
- Type
- Accelerator (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $114K – $2.3M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- AgricultureSmartgridRenewable
- Based in
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first131 appearances
- 2026
13 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2025
21 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- May
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2024
13 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Jun
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
FSFelipe Santamaria PieschaconManager / MemberiForm ADV
We also hold 18 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
1+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Rockstart Management Company, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 329750
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
19 of 50 we have independently watched raise
AMMP TechnologiesAbastoresAestuariumAgopreneAgriRobotAisel HealthAnother EarthAuthic LabsBabymoonBalamBamomasBeholderBeyond WeatherBugBiomeBundlesChefMeClairifyCordulusbliro123CarbonALTRActable AIAdvanced Infrastructure TechnologyAgcurateAgrexaiAllihopAltlas HomeAsisteAuxenAziobotBCHARBeyond Leather MaterialsBia Power GridBioticBirdsBloomBrainTripBright EnergyCarbonSpaceCardiomo CareCircadianCircular IQCloudbizComplex EarthContribeCramstackCrowdsquadCrownstoneCurrenttbaSeq
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
PostcronBought by Social ToolsUndisclosedApr 2015
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.