Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

Type

Bank

Status

Active

Location

Bilbao, Spain

Total investments

26

Average round size

229M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

0.16

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

6

Areas of investment
AutomotiveReal EstateE-CommerceFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceMobile AppsBankingOil and Gas

Summary

In 1999 was created Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Bilbao. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Spain.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Social Entrepreneurship. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 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 Atom Bank, SumUp, Porsche. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, startups are often financed by finleap, Yabeo Capital, Woodford Investment Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Toscafund Asset Management, Woodford Investment Management, SBI Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toscafund Asset Management, Greylock Partners, Woodford Investment Management.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The overall number of key employees were 18.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
4
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.16
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (17)
  • FinTech (12)
  • Banking (11)
  • Mobile Apps (8)
  • E-Commerce (3)
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Investments by region
  • China (3)
  • United States (5)
  • United Kingdom (11)
  • France (1)
  • Germany (3)
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Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
36
Avg. valuation at time of investment
7B
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
49
Avg. multiplicator
0.39
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Carbonplace 08 Feb 2023 Financial Services Seed 45M England, London, United Kingdom
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