Arzan Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Total investments

49

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

4.90

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetTransportationSoftwareFinancial ServicesRetailInformation TechnologyPaymentsSaaSMobile Apps

Summary

Arzan Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The venture was found in Asia in Kuwait. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Safat.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Careem Networks, LUNCH:ON, The Luxury Closet. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile Apps, SaaS. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Arab Emirates.

Comparing to the other companies, this Arzan Venture Capital performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Arzan Venture Capital is 50-100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Arzan Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Raed Ventures, 500 Startups, Wamda Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wamda Capital, Raed Ventures, 500 Startups. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wamda Capital, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), Shorooq Partners.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
4.90
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Software (15)
  • E-Commerce (11)
  • Information Technology (11)
  • Internet (10)
  • SaaS (8)
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Investments by region
  • Saudi Arabia (9)
  • United Arab Emirates (19)
  • Egypt (8)
  • Jordan (6)
  • United States (2)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
52M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Lobster 15 Mar 2016 Social Media Advertising, Social Network, Video, Digital Media Seed 411K England, London, United Kingdom
Nearpay 12 Dec 2023 Software, FinTech, Mobile Payments, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 14M Ar Riyad, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Retailo Technologies 01 Feb 2022 E-Commerce, Retail, B2B, Marketplace Early Stage Venture 29M Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia

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