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Gecad Ventures

Founders Radu Georgescu

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.77
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 8
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
  • Cloud Data Services
  • EBooks
Summary

In 1992 was created Gecad Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Romania. The main department of described VC is located in the Bucharest.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Gecad Ventures works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Radu Georgescu.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Gecad Ventures, startups are often financed by Theo Osborne, Techstars New York City Accelerator, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 3TS Capital Partners, Gapminder VC, Theo Osborne. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Gapminder VC, 3TS Capital Partners, Techstars.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kare Knowledgeware, Axigen, Avangate. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - The Netherlands. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as FinTech, Financial Services.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Soleadify

Machine Learning
$1M20 Oct 2020 Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

FintechOS

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
Venture Capital
$1M15 May 2019 England

TypingDNA

Biometrics
Cyber Security
Developer APIs
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Software
$1M31 Jan 2019 New York, New York, United States

Gluru

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$2M15 Nov 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

TypingDNA

Biometrics
Cyber Security
Developer APIs
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Software
$200K31 Oct 2016 New York, United States

Symphopay

Information Technology
Marketing
Payments
$649K05 Apr 2016 Bucharest, Romania

Smart Bill

Billing
Finance
FinTech
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$1M09 Mar 2016 Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

Gluru

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$1M12 Jan 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Vector Watch

Consumer Goods
Wearables
$1M07 Jul 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 23
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.77
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.43

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Soleadify

Machine Learning
$1M20 Oct 2020 Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

FintechOS

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
Venture Capital
$1M15 May 2019 England

TypingDNA

Biometrics
Cyber Security
Developer APIs
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Software
$1M31 Jan 2019 New York, New York, United States

Gluru

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$2M15 Nov 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

TypingDNA

Biometrics
Cyber Security
Developer APIs
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Software
$200K31 Oct 2016 New York, United States

Symphopay

Information Technology
Marketing
Payments
$649K05 Apr 2016 Bucharest, Romania

Smart Bill

Billing
Finance
FinTech
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$1M09 Mar 2016 Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

Gluru

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$1M12 Jan 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Vector Watch

Consumer Goods
Wearables
$1M07 Jul 2014 London, England, United Kingdom
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