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Baekeland Funds

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.52
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Health Diagnostics
Summary

Baekeland Funds is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The main department of described VC is located in the Gent. The company was established in Europe in The Netherlands.

Opposing the other organizations, this Baekeland Funds works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2008. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Baekeland Funds, startups are often financed by Vesalius Biocapital Partners, Life Sciences Partners, Omnes Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Gimv, Vesalius Biocapital Partners, Life Sciences Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VIB, MP Healthcare Venture Management, Life Sciences Partners.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Belgium. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Aristo Music Technology, Gemidis, Trinean Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Therapeutics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Complix

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$14M26 Jun 2013 Limburg

Sigasi

Hardware
Software
29 Jul 2010 East Flanders

Pronota

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$7M29 Jun 2009 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

Pronota

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$10M22 Aug 2006 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

Gemidis

Hardware
Manufacturing
Software
$8M27 Mar 2006 Belgium, Antwerp, Belgium

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Total investments 13
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 0.52
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Complix

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$14M26 Jun 2013 Limburg

Sigasi

Hardware
Software
29 Jul 2010 East Flanders

Pronota

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$7M29 Jun 2009 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

Pronota

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$10M22 Aug 2006 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

Gemidis

Hardware
Manufacturing
Software
$8M27 Mar 2006 Belgium, Antwerp, Belgium
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