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Accion Venture Lab

Founders Paul Breloff

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Total investments 111
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 73
Rounds per year 8.54
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 1
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Finance
  • Small and Medium Businesses
  • Credit
Summary

In 2011 was created Accion Venture Lab, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Washington. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Accion Venture Lab, startups are often financed by Wayra, Techstars, SparkLabs Global Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Omidyar Network, Newid capital, Mountain Nazca. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Quona Capital, Omidyar Network, SAIF Partners.

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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Varthana, Lend Street Financial, Inc. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, Finance.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2015.

The current fund was established by Paul Breloff. The overall number of key employees were 12.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Agrim Wholesale

E-Commerce
Internet
Marketplace
Retail
$17M30 Aug 2024 Gurugram, Haryana, India

TransBnk

Banking
Financial Services
Transaction Processing
$4M21 Aug 2024 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Sukhiba

Communities
E-Commerce
$1M30 Jul 2024 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Cashinvoice

Digital Marketing
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
$3M07 Feb 2024 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

AquaExchange

Aquaculture
Farming
$6M19 Jan 2024 Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Semaai

Agriculture
AgTech
Information Technology
$5K08 Jan 2024 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Showroom B2B

B2B
Fashion
Internet
Marketplace
Retail
$6M19 Oct 2023 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Verqor

AgTech
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$4M21 Sep 2023 Mexico City, Mexico

Bababos

Enterprise
Mineral
Procurement
Wholesale
$3M19 Sep 2023 Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
News
Egyptian startup Capiter raises $33M to expand B2B e-commerce platform across MENA

– B2B e-commerce startup Capiter raised $33m in Series A funding.
– The round was co-led by Quona Capital and MSA Capital.
– Other participating investors include Savola, Shorooq Partners, Foundation Ventures, Accion Venture Lab and Derayah Ventures.
– Capiter was launched in July 2020 by Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Nouh.
– The company solves problems around reach and insights for suppliers and manufacturers.

Dinie, Brazil’s Pioneer API-First Embedded Lending Fintech Raises USD $3.8 Million in Seed Round

– Dinie, Brazil’s pioneer API-first embedded finance fintech, announced a USD $3.8m seed round led by Accion Venture Lab and K50 Ventures, with participation from Flourish Ventures, Domo Invest and Tribe Capital amongst other funds, and several individuals from successful companies including Bill.com, Divvy, and more.
– The company also announced that it has concluded its own securitization structure securing a further USD $20m in debt financing capacity from Empirica Investimentos, a local structured debt investor, with a portfolio under management of USD $1bn.

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Total investments 111
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 8.54
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Agrim Wholesale

E-Commerce
Internet
Marketplace
Retail
$17M30 Aug 2024 Gurugram, Haryana, India

TransBnk

Banking
Financial Services
Transaction Processing
$4M21 Aug 2024 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Sukhiba

Communities
E-Commerce
$1M30 Jul 2024 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Cashinvoice

Digital Marketing
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
$3M07 Feb 2024 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

AquaExchange

Aquaculture
Farming
$6M19 Jan 2024 Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Semaai

Agriculture
AgTech
Information Technology
$5K08 Jan 2024 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Showroom B2B

B2B
Fashion
Internet
Marketplace
Retail
$6M19 Oct 2023 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Verqor

AgTech
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$4M21 Sep 2023 Mexico City, Mexico

Bababos

Enterprise
Mineral
Procurement
Wholesale
$3M19 Sep 2023 Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
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