Alto Invest

Total investments

31

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

1.07

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingElectronicsConsulting

Summary

Alto Invest appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Versailles.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Alto Invest, startups are often financed by Auriga Partners, Omnes Capital, NBGI Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bpifrance, Auriga Partners, M Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bpifrance, Norgine Ventures, Kreos Capital.

The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Alto Invest is 100-500 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Alto Invest performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DBV Technologies, Talentsoft, SuperSonic Imagine The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical Device, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - France. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
5
Exits
8
Rounds per year
1.07
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • SaaS (6)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
  • Biotechnology (5)
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Investments by region
  • France (27)
  • United States (2)
  • Germany (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2013

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
EZ Wheel 25 Jan 2015 Manufacturing, Electronics, Innovation Management, Electrical Distribution Early Stage Venture 6M France, Hauts-de-France, France
Sellsy 01 Jan 2011 E-Commerce, Internet, Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Enterprise Software, CRM, Customer Service, Billing Early Stage Venture 1M France, New Aquitaine, La Rochelle

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