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BEENEXT

Founders Teruhide Sato

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Total investments 312
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 189
Rounds per year 34.67
Lead investments 45
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 8
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
Summary

BEENEXT is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The venture was found in Asia in Singapore. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Singapore.

This organization was formed by Teruhide Sato. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the BEENEXT, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures, SAIF Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Blume Ventures, 500 Startups, Sequoia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital India, Pravega Ventures, Blume Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sendo, PepperTap, NuvoEx. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Health Care.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from BEENEXT is 50-100 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this BEENEXT works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

International Battery Company

Battery
$35M18 Jan 2024 -

Semaai

Agriculture
AgTech
Information Technology
$5K08 Jan 2024 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Scimplifi

Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing
$3M07 Dec 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Phi Commerce Pvt Ltd

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
Information Technology
$10M28 Nov 2023 Pune, Maharashtra, India

Coverself

Cloud Data Services
FinTech
Payments
$3M14 Nov 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Gushwork

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$2M20 Jul 2023 Lewes, Delaware, United States

StepChange

$4M23 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Netbank

Banking
Financial Services
Payments
22 May 2023 Philippines, Misamis Occidental, Philippines

EazyDiner

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Hospitality
Lifestyle
Restaurants
Service Industry
$5M29 Mar 2023 Delhi, Delhi, India
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FloBiz Raises $31M in Series B Funding

– FloBiz is an Indian neobank for the Indian SMBs.
– Company raised $31m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Sequoia Capital India, Think Investments and its existing investors Elevation Capital & Beenext, with participation from angels like Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Paytm), Kunal Shah (CRED), Jiten Gupta (Jupiter), Amrish Rau (Pine Labs), Neeraj Arora (HalloApp), Nitin Gupta (Uni Cards), Ankit Tomar (Bizongo), Sayali Karanjkar (PaySense) and Krishnan Menon (BukuKas), along with 9Unicorns and Whiteboard Capital.
– The company intends to use the funds for team expansion, product development and scaling distribution.

Amazon backs Indian wealth management service Smallcase in $40 million funding

Amazon backed Bangalore-based startup Smallcase in a $40m Series C financing round.
– The round was led by Faering Capital and Premji Invest.
– Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures, Beenext, DSP Group, Arkam Ventures, WEH Ventures and HDFC Bank also participated in the new round.
– Smallcase offers a platform to help introduce a new generation of investors to the Indian equity markets.
– The startup offers an in-house team of licensed professionals who offer more than 100 portfolios of stocks and exchange-traded funds, as well as provides its users access to independent investment managers, brokerages and wealth platforms.
– Smallcase has amassed over 3 million users, who are transacting about $2.5 billion each year.

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Total investments 312
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 34.67
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 45
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

International Battery Company

Battery
$35M18 Jan 2024 -

Semaai

Agriculture
AgTech
Information Technology
$5K08 Jan 2024 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Scimplifi

Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing
$3M07 Dec 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Phi Commerce Pvt Ltd

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
Information Technology
$10M28 Nov 2023 Pune, Maharashtra, India

Coverself

Cloud Data Services
FinTech
Payments
$3M14 Nov 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Gushwork

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$2M20 Jul 2023 Lewes, Delaware, United States

StepChange

$4M23 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Netbank

Banking
Financial Services
Payments
22 May 2023 Philippines, Misamis Occidental, Philippines

EazyDiner

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Hospitality
Lifestyle
Restaurants
Service Industry
$5M29 Mar 2023 Delhi, Delhi, India
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