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Alpana Ventures

Founders Alex Fries Nathalie Chemtob Pascal H. Widmer

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Total investments 101
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 14.43
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.56
Exits 3
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Mobile
  • SaaS
  • FinTech
  • Software
Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Geneva. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Alpana Ventures, startups are often financed by Venture Kick, Plug and Play, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Plug and Play, Fyrfly Venture Partners, investiere | Verve Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polytech Ventures, investiere | Verve Capital Partners, Fyrfly Venture Partners.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lyric, Beekeeper, Qwil The fund has no specific favorite 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. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Finance, Real Time. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Alpana Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tinamu Labs

Film
Motion Capture
$1M19 Jun 2023 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Beekeeper

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Mobile
Real Time
SaaS
Unified Communications
$50M09 Nov 2022 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Mila

Application Software
Collaborative Consumption
Crowdsourcing
EdTech
Health Care
Information Services (B2C)
Location Based Services
Mobile
Social/Platform Software
Software
$2M07 Jun 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Altoida, Inc.

Application Software
Augmented Reality
Diagnostic Equipment
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
mHealth
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Software
$14M30 Mar 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

IPwe

Artificial Intelligence
Cryptocurrency
Finance
FinTech
Lending
Risk Management
Trading Platform
Venture Capital
$2M25 Feb 2022 Dallas, Texas, United States

Safetby

SaaS
$300K01 Dec 2021 -

Beekeeper

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Mobile
Real Time
SaaS
Unified Communications
$50M08 Nov 2021 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Tinamu Labs

Film
Motion Capture
$1M12 Oct 2021 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Car IQ

Automotive
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M11 Aug 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 101
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 14.43
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.56
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tinamu Labs

Film
Motion Capture
$1M19 Jun 2023 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Beekeeper

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Mobile
Real Time
SaaS
Unified Communications
$50M09 Nov 2022 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Mila

Application Software
Collaborative Consumption
Crowdsourcing
EdTech
Health Care
Information Services (B2C)
Location Based Services
Mobile
Social/Platform Software
Software
$2M07 Jun 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Altoida, Inc.

Application Software
Augmented Reality
Diagnostic Equipment
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
mHealth
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Software
$14M30 Mar 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

IPwe

Artificial Intelligence
Cryptocurrency
Finance
FinTech
Lending
Risk Management
Trading Platform
Venture Capital
$2M25 Feb 2022 Dallas, Texas, United States

Safetby

SaaS
$300K01 Dec 2021 -

Beekeeper

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Mobile
Real Time
SaaS
Unified Communications
$50M08 Nov 2021 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Tinamu Labs

Film
Motion Capture
$1M12 Oct 2021 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Car IQ

Automotive
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M11 Aug 2021 San Francisco, California, United States
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