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VIA Equity

Founders John Helmsoe

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 2.07
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 13
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Mobile
  • Advertising
Summary

In 2006 was created VIA Equity, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Hellerup. The venture was found in Europe in Denmark.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the VIA Equity, startups are often financed by True Ventures, Steven Yaskin, Stan Chudnovsky. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tesi, ATP Private Equity Partners, Verdane. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RUSNANO, Tesi, Plug and Play.

The current fund was established by John Helmsoe. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consulting, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Denmark. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Nets, ComActivity, MTI Radiocomp ApS.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 33 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This VIA Equity works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adform

Advertising
Internet
Software
$5M11 May 2014 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

GoIP International

E-Commerce
Messaging
SaaS
Software
VoIP
$2M05 Jan 2007 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

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Total investments 31
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 2.07
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.35

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adform

Advertising
Internet
Software
$5M11 May 2014 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

GoIP International

E-Commerce
Messaging
SaaS
Software
VoIP
$2M05 Jan 2007 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
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