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AKITUA

Founders Etienne FRETAULT

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1K
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.83
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 1
Key employees 2
https://www.AkituaPartners.com
Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Sports
  • Food Processing
  • Consumer Goods
  • Biotechnology
  • Food and Beverage
Summary

In 2005 was created AKITUA, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Lyon. The venture was found in Europe in France.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Finless Foods 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Blockchain, Sports.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the AKITUA, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Hemisphere Ventures, Yakumi. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Entrepreneur Venture. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by PMT Ventures, Tetragon Financial Group Limited, Sustainable Ocean Alliance.

The current fund was established by Etienne FRETAULT.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This AKITUA works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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2 Novi Management
3 Stark Investments

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Team
Etienne Fretault CEO 953bbf233a321e1281500e6 6f041af

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Curtsy

E-Commerce
Fashion
Mobile Apps
Shopping
Women's
29 Nov 2019
AKITUA
 San Francisco, California, United States

Finless Foods

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$25K17 Oct 2019
Sustainable Ocean Alliance
Social Starts
Good Seed Ventures
AKITUA
 Berkeley, California, United States

Finless Foods

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
31 Aug 2019
AKITUA
 Berkeley, California, United States

LePermisLibre

EdTech
01 Sep 2018
AKITUA
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STADIUM 360

Sports
01 May 2011
AKITUA
 Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Cervin

30 Jun 2010
AKITUA
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Total investments 15
Average round size 1K
Rounds per year 0.83
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.27

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Curtsy

E-Commerce
Fashion
Mobile Apps
Shopping
Women's
29 Nov 2019
AKITUA
 San Francisco, California, United States

Finless Foods

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$25K17 Oct 2019
Sustainable Ocean Alliance
Social Starts
Good Seed Ventures
AKITUA
 Berkeley, California, United States

Finless Foods

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
31 Aug 2019
AKITUA
 Berkeley, California, United States

LePermisLibre

EdTech
01 Sep 2018
AKITUA
 -

STADIUM 360

Sports
01 May 2011
AKITUA
 Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Cervin

30 Jun 2010
AKITUA
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