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Polytech Ventures

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Total investments 48
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 36
Rounds per year 3.00
Lead investments 9
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 6
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Big Data
Summary

Polytech Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Lausanne.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Polytech Ventures, startups are often financed by Venture Kick, Alpana Ventures, Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are investiere | Verve Capital Partners, Business Angels Switzerland (BAS), Alpana Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by investiere | Verve Capital Partners, Fyrfly Venture Partners, Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT).

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lightbend, Beekeeper, Qwil. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Information Technology.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Polytech Ventures performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Earny

Accounting
Financial Services
$1M28 Sep 2021 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Relai

Bitcoin
Financial Services
FinTech
$2M16 Jun 2021 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

yamo

Baby
Children
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Nutrition
Organic Food
Subscription Service
$11M09 Jul 2020 Zug, Switzerland

KiWi

Finance
Financial Services
$3M17 Jan 2019 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

KiWi

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Micro Lending
Mobile Payments
Payments
Software
$3M18 Aug 2018 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

The Glue

Financial Services
Information Services
Information Technology
$5M15 Jun 2018 Belgium, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

ProcSea

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Marketplace
Seafood
Supply Chain Management
$2M17 May 2018 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Nezasa

B2B
Information Technology
Tourism
Travel
$2M27 Sep 2017 Zurich, Switzerland

Lunaphore

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$6M15 Jul 2017 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
News
Relai Raises CHF 2.5M in Series A Funding

– Relai is a Zurich, Switzerland-based bitcoin app.
– The company raised CHF 2.5m in Series A funding round.
– The round was led by Redalpine, Polytech Ventures, Fulgur Ventures and ACE & Company.
– The funds will be used to build a proprietary broker for efficient order processing and provide new offerings for investors looking to buy large amounts of bitcoin.

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Total investments 48
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 3.00
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Earny

Accounting
Financial Services
$1M28 Sep 2021 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Relai

Bitcoin
Financial Services
FinTech
$2M16 Jun 2021 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

yamo

Baby
Children
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Nutrition
Organic Food
Subscription Service
$11M09 Jul 2020 Zug, Switzerland

KiWi

Finance
Financial Services
$3M17 Jan 2019 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

KiWi

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Micro Lending
Mobile Payments
Payments
Software
$3M18 Aug 2018 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

The Glue

Financial Services
Information Services
Information Technology
$5M15 Jun 2018 Belgium, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

ProcSea

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Marketplace
Seafood
Supply Chain Management
$2M17 May 2018 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Nezasa

B2B
Information Technology
Tourism
Travel
$2M27 Sep 2017 Zurich, Switzerland

Lunaphore

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$6M15 Jul 2017 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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