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Silicon Badia

Founders Emile Cubeisy Fawaz H. Zuu2019bi Namek Zu'bi

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Total investments 94
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 72
Rounds per year 7.23
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 10
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • FinTech
Summary

Silicon Badia is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The current fund was established by Emile Cubeisy, Namek Zu'bi. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Newsela, InfluxData, Forever Labs. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Education. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Silicon Badia, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Techstars, Right Side Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, LaunchCapital, DASH Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Trinity Ventures, DASH Ventures.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Silicon Badia is 50-100 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2020. Opposing the other organizations, this Silicon Badia works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$2M31 Jul 2024 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Cartona

Apps
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$5M30 Jul 2024 Egypt, Texas, United States

Tayar

Customer Service
Delivery Service
Machine Learning
Railroad
Software
Transportation
$3M29 Jan 2024 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

The Prospective Co.

Analytics
Information Technology
$6M18 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

mtion

$500K01 Dec 2022 -

Userpilot

Enterprise Software
Product Design
Product Management
SaaS
UX Design
$4M05 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Cartona

Apps
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$12M25 Jul 2022 Egypt, Texas, United States

Padel Haus

Fitness
Recreation
Sports
Wellness
$3M11 Jul 2022 Brooklyn, New York, United States

JoyHub

Property Management
Real Estate
Rental Property
Software
$3M09 Jun 2022 California, United States
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Bosta raises $6.7M to expand e-commerce delivery business across Africa and MENA

– Bosta, a logistics and last-mile delivery company, raised $6.7m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Silicon Badia and joined by 4DX Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, Wealth Well VC, Khwarizmi VC, as well as other regional and global investors.
– The company offers next-day delivery to customers and handles exchange shipments, customer returns and cash collection.
– The idea for Bosta came during Ezzat’s time at Lynks, his previous consumer goods startup. Lynks, the first YC-backed company from Egypt, allows people in Egypt to buy brands from the U.S., China and the U.K.

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Total investments 94
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 7.23
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$2M31 Jul 2024 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Cartona

Apps
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$5M30 Jul 2024 Egypt, Texas, United States

Tayar

Customer Service
Delivery Service
Machine Learning
Railroad
Software
Transportation
$3M29 Jan 2024 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

The Prospective Co.

Analytics
Information Technology
$6M18 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

mtion

$500K01 Dec 2022 -

Userpilot

Enterprise Software
Product Design
Product Management
SaaS
UX Design
$4M05 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Cartona

Apps
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$12M25 Jul 2022 Egypt, Texas, United States

Padel Haus

Fitness
Recreation
Sports
Wellness
$3M11 Jul 2022 Brooklyn, New York, United States

JoyHub

Property Management
Real Estate
Rental Property
Software
$3M09 Jun 2022 California, United States
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