How do we select our investments?

How do we select our investments?

Over the years we have built expertise, resources and networks that serve well to benefit the advancement of our portfolio companies. We therefore tend to pick investments that are in a position to rip the greatest benefits from collaborating with us. Our history shows that our involvement is most impactful with ventures that are at a certain location, sector and stage. That is not to say that ventures that do not meet these criteria are not worthwhile investments. They may very well be- just not for us.  We are most likely to invest in startups that meet the following criteria:

• STAGE: Decima Ventures invests in early stage companies- with investment size of anything between $50K and $4mm. For our portfolio companies we also fund expansion rounds. Typically, we provide the first outside money that a company raises. While we invest in companies pre-revenue, we do expect our investments to have a proven proof of concept or the ability to show some traction.
• DOMAIN: While we may consider a broad range of high-tech and internet companies, we prefer to invest in companies in the areas where we have developed domain expertise. These areas include cyber-security, social networking, messaging and video.
• GEOGRAPHY: In order to provide our portfolio companies an on-going support and unlimited access to our resources and people, we prefer to invest in ventures that are headquartered in the markets where we have a year-round physical presence- namely the US and Israel.
• PEOPLE: Lastly- and most importantly we fund companies, but we invest in people. People are the single most important criteria to our investment decision. We look for passionate, committed, bright teams with relevant experience and  a proven track record.