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Digicel

Founders Denis O'Brien

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.60
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Health Care
  • Insurance
Summary

In 2001 was created Digicel, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in Jamaica. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Kingston.

The typical startup value when the investment from Digicel is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Digicel performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, CRM. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spritz, HeyStaks, Flint.

The current fund was established by Denis O'Brien. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Digicel, startups are often financed by Millicom Systems, Kinnevik AB, LeapFrog Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are True Ventures, Storm Ventures, SVG Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Verizon Ventures, Millicom Systems, Kinnevik AB.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BIMA

Financial Services
FinTech
Health Care
Insurance
Mobile
$20M01 Jul 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Altocloud

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Communications Infrastructure
CRM
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
$2M16 Mar 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

Samba Networks

Advertising
Apps
Messaging
Mobile
Social Media
Video
$377K08 Jan 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

BIMA

Financial Services
FinTech
Health Care
Insurance
Mobile
$5M02 Dec 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Flint

Internet
Mobile
Payments
$9M22 Oct 2014 Redwood City, California, United States

Spritz

Enterprise Software
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
Messaging
Mobile
$3M10 Mar 2014 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Flint

Internet
Mobile
Payments
$6M25 Oct 2013 Redwood City, California, United States

Samba Networks

Advertising
Apps
Messaging
Mobile
Social Media
Video
$500K01 Nov 2011 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 12
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.60
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.58

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BIMA

Financial Services
FinTech
Health Care
Insurance
Mobile
$20M01 Jul 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Altocloud

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Communications Infrastructure
CRM
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
$2M16 Mar 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

Samba Networks

Advertising
Apps
Messaging
Mobile
Social Media
Video
$377K08 Jan 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

BIMA

Financial Services
FinTech
Health Care
Insurance
Mobile
$5M02 Dec 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Flint

Internet
Mobile
Payments
$9M22 Oct 2014 Redwood City, California, United States

Spritz

Enterprise Software
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
Messaging
Mobile
$3M10 Mar 2014 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Flint

Internet
Mobile
Payments
$6M25 Oct 2013 Redwood City, California, United States

Samba Networks

Advertising
Apps
Messaging
Mobile
Social Media
Video
$500K01 Nov 2011 London, England, United Kingdom
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