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Benhamou Global Ventures

Founders Eric Benhamou

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Total investments 114
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 77
Rounds per year 5.70
Lead investments 16
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 17
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Analytics
Summary

Benhamou Global Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2004. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Benhamou Global Ventures, startups are often financed by Canvas Ventures, Plug and Play, Nesta Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Plug and Play, Sofinnova Investments, Partech. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Plug and Play, Sofinnova Investments, Grayhawk Capital.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Computer. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Finjan Holdings, Light Blue Optics, Virtual Instruments.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Benhamou Global Ventures works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The fund was created by Eric Benhamou. The overall number of key employees were 9.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Greenly

Banking
Environmental Engineering
GreenTech
Mobile Apps
Quantified Self
Software
$56M21 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Secret Double Octopus

Computer
Cyber Security
Identity Management
Internet of Things
$15M16 Jan 2024 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

German Bionic

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Open Source
Robotics
Wearables
$17M11 Dec 2023 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Essenvia

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical Device
SaaS
Software
$4M02 May 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Stack Identity

Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Cyber Security
$4M24 Apr 2023 -

MadKudu

B2B
Developer APIs
Lead Generation
Marketing Automation
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Sales Automation
$18M15 Nov 2022 Mountain View, California, United States

Spyderbat

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$10M24 Oct 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

fintastic

Software
$12M06 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Everestlabs.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
Sensor
Software
$16M28 Sep 2022 Fremont, California, United States
News
Geospatial analytics startup AiDash lands $27M

– AiDash, a company using satellite imagery and AI to monitor infrastructure, announced that it raised $27 million in series B funding led by G2 Venture Partners, with BGV, National Grid Partners, and additional strategic investors participating.
– The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to date to $33 million, which AiDash says will be put toward expanding its workforce and further developing its platform.
– Companies in a range of markets are using satellite imagery to improve efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and even make investment decisions.
– Driving the adoption is an explosion of data — at the start of 2019, an estimated 5,000 satellites revolved around the Earth’s orbit — but also advancements in AI that make analyses of the imagery more attainable than before.

Nirmata Secures $4M in Pre-Series A Funding

– Nirmata is a software solutions provider for governance, compliance, security, and automation of production Kubernetes workloads and clusters.
– The company raised $4.0m in pre-series A funding.
– The round was led by Z5 Capital with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures, Samsung Next, Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) and angel investors Saqib Syed and BV Jagadeesh.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s growth and development of Kyverno.

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Total investments 114
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 5.70
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 16
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Greenly

Banking
Environmental Engineering
GreenTech
Mobile Apps
Quantified Self
Software
$56M21 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Secret Double Octopus

Computer
Cyber Security
Identity Management
Internet of Things
$15M16 Jan 2024 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

German Bionic

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Open Source
Robotics
Wearables
$17M11 Dec 2023 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Essenvia

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical Device
SaaS
Software
$4M02 May 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Stack Identity

Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Cyber Security
$4M24 Apr 2023 -

MadKudu

B2B
Developer APIs
Lead Generation
Marketing Automation
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Sales Automation
$18M15 Nov 2022 Mountain View, California, United States

Spyderbat

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$10M24 Oct 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

fintastic

Software
$12M06 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Everestlabs.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
Sensor
Software
$16M28 Sep 2022 Fremont, California, United States
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