African Rainbow Capital

Total investments

25

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

1.25

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

5

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyPaymentsFinanceSaaSBankingProperty ManagementE-Commerce Platforms

Summary

In 2004 was created African Rainbow Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Africa in South Africa. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Gauteng.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Real Estate, Banking.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the African Rainbow Capital, startups are often financed by Naspers, Marsh & McLennan Companies. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Public Investment Corporation, Ethos Private Equity.

When the investment is from African Rainbow Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The real fund results show that this VC is 51 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this African Rainbow Capital works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
10
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.25
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (14)
  • Payments (7)
  • Banking (6)
  • Internet (6)
  • Information Technology (5)
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Investments by region
  • South Africa (20)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Argentina (1)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
33
Avg. valuation at time of investment
55M
Group Appearance index
0.16
Avg. company exit year
44
Avg. multiplicator
0.13
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
TymeBank 10 Jun 2019 Financial Services, Information Technology, Payments, Banking Early Stage Venture 13M Gauteng, South Africa, South Africa
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