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Ventures Platform

Founders Kola Aina

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Total investments 131
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$766K
Portfolio companies 97
Rounds per year 16.38
Lead investments 21
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Internet
  • Finance
  • Information Technology
Summary

Ventures Platform is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Ikoyi. The fund was located in Africa if to be more exact in Nigeria.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kudi, Paystack. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Internet. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Nigeria.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Ventures Platform, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, SpeedUPAfrica, Zeno Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Village Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Tencent Holdings, Google Launchpad Accelerator.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Ventures Platform is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 39 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50-100 thousands dollars.

The current fund was established by Kola Aina. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Maad

Analytics
B2B
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
SaaS
Wholesale
$2M13 May 2024 Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

MDaaS Global

Health Care
Medical Device
Professional Services
$3M06 Mar 2024 Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

VOOM

14 Feb 2024 -

Shekel Mobility

$3M13 Nov 2023 -

Lengo

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Goods
Information Services
SaaS
04 Oct 2023 Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

Maad

Analytics
B2B
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
SaaS
Wholesale
01 Oct 2023 Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

Mecho

Auto Insurance
Automotive
Information Technology
Internet of Things
$2M14 Sep 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Traction Apps

$6M01 Aug 2023 -

MyCover.ai

FinTech
InsurTech
$1M19 Jul 2023 Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria

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Total investments 131
Average round size 766K
Rounds per year 16.38
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.47

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Maad

Analytics
B2B
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
SaaS
Wholesale
$2M13 May 2024 Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

MDaaS Global

Health Care
Medical Device
Professional Services
$3M06 Mar 2024 Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

VOOM

14 Feb 2024 -

Shekel Mobility

$3M13 Nov 2023 -

Lengo

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Goods
Information Services
SaaS
04 Oct 2023 Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

Maad

Analytics
B2B
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
SaaS
Wholesale
01 Oct 2023 Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

Mecho

Auto Insurance
Automotive
Information Technology
Internet of Things
$2M14 Sep 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Traction Apps

$6M01 Aug 2023 -

MyCover.ai

FinTech
InsurTech
$1M19 Jul 2023 Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
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