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What does Steamboat Ventures invest in?
Steamboat Ventures invests most often at Series B and Series A (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure and Media.
Steamboat Ventures highlights
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118 rounds on record
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Mostly Series B and Series A: 61% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 47 rounds, median $4.0M
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20 exits from the portfolio
What they do
- Type
- Corporate VC (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- AnalyticsCloud InfrastructureMedia
- Based in
- Glendale, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first118 appearances
- 2015
1 round
- Jun
- 2014
6 rounds
- Dec
- Aug
- Aug
- May
- Mar
- Jan
- 2013
6 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Feb
- 2012
5 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- May
- Mar
- 2011
11 rounds
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- 2010
12 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
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 registration3 named
FRFan R. LipingDirector of the General Partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
JRJohn Richard BallDirector of the General Partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
LFLiping FanDirectoriForm ADV
We also hold 7 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
$54Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Steamboat Ventures ASIA Management, LTD.
- SEC number
- CRD 160213
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 1 we have independently watched raise
Documentation
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 listed20 in all
StrongViewBought by HGGCUndisclosedSept 2015
Elemental TechnologiesBought by Amazon$500MSept 2015
MediaoceanBought by Vista Equity PartnersUndisclosedJun 2015
EdgeCast NetworksBought by Verizon Communications$350MDec 2013
Kapow SoftwareBought by Kofax$48MJul 2013
BloomspotBought by Chase Banking CorporationUndisclosedDec 2012
VoodooVoxBought by Call GenieUndisclosedDec 2011
56.comBought by Renren Inc.$80MSept 2011
SometricsBought by American Express$30MSept 2011
MerchantCircleBought by BuyerLink$60MJun 2011
GreystripeBought by ValueClick$75MApr 2011
KyteBought by KIT digitalUndisclosedJan 2011
ScrapblogBought by MixbookUndisclosedJan 2011
PlaydomBought by The Walt Disney Company$763MJul 2010
PhotobucketBought by PhotobucketUndisclosedDec 2009
PopularMediaBought by StrongViewUndisclosedJun 2009
Pure Digital TechnologiesBought by Cisco$590MMar 2009
FastclickBought by ValueClick$132MAug 2005
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.