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EDUCAPITAL

Founders Litzie Maarek Marie-Christine Levet

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 31
Rounds per year 5.43
Lead investments 9
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Venture

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • EdTech
  • E-Learning
  • Software
  • Video Games
Summary

EDUCAPITAL is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris. The company was established in Europe in France.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the EDUCAPITAL, startups are often financed by AGORANOV, Nicolas Douay, Wilco. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Impact Partenaires, Bpifrance, XAnge.

The current fund was established by Litzie Maarek, Marie-Christine Levet. The overall number of key employees were 2.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Digital Media. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Student Pop, Magic Makers, Labster.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cyber Guru

Cyber Security
Network Security
24 Oct 2024 Rome, Lazio, Italy

Female Invest

E-Learning
EdTech
Finance
Women's
$12M29 Jul 2024 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

NOLEJ

E-Learning
Mobile Apps
Software
$3M28 Nov 2023 Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

HappyPal

Credit Cards
Employee Benefits
FinTech
Gift Card
Human Resources
Payments
SaaS
Software
$8M21 Nov 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

MerciApp

Apps
Software
$5M03 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Lepaya

Education
$38M21 Sep 2023 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Edflex

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
MOOC
Personal Development
Training
$10M11 May 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

MentorShow

Advice
E-Learning
Service Industry
$17M10 Mar 2023 France, Idaho, United States

Knowunity

E-Learning
Education
$10M15 Feb 2023 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
News
Corporate learning platform 360Learning raises $200 million

– 360Learning, a French e-learning company, raised $50m funding.
– The round was led by Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund and joined by XAnge and Educapital.
– Existing investors also participated in the round.
– The company plans to hire more people, expand to new markets and make some acquisitions.

PowerZ raises $8.3 million for its video game focused on education

– French startup PowerZ raised $8.3m funding.
– The round was led by Bpifrance Digital Venture, RAISE Ventures and Bayard.
– Existing investors Educapital, Hachette Livres, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet and Michaël Benabou are also investing once again.
– The company wants to build a game that is as engaging as Minecraft or Fortnite, but with a focus on education.
– Aimed at kids who are six years old and over, PowerZ teleports the player into a fantasy world with cute dragons and magic spells.
– The company wants to partner with other game studios.
– It plans to launch its game on the iPad this week.

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Total investments 38
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 5.43
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cyber Guru

Cyber Security
Network Security
24 Oct 2024 Rome, Lazio, Italy

Female Invest

E-Learning
EdTech
Finance
Women's
$12M29 Jul 2024 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

NOLEJ

E-Learning
Mobile Apps
Software
$3M28 Nov 2023 Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

HappyPal

Credit Cards
Employee Benefits
FinTech
Gift Card
Human Resources
Payments
SaaS
Software
$8M21 Nov 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

MerciApp

Apps
Software
$5M03 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Lepaya

Education
$38M21 Sep 2023 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Edflex

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
MOOC
Personal Development
Training
$10M11 May 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

MentorShow

Advice
E-Learning
Service Industry
$17M10 Mar 2023 France, Idaho, United States

Knowunity

E-Learning
Education
$10M15 Feb 2023 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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