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Black Pearls VC

Founders Alexander Lubau0144ski Marcin Kowalik

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$933K
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 3.67
Lead investments 26
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • FinTech
  • Analytics
  • Big Data
Summary

Black Pearls VC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The venture was found in Europe in Poland. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Gdansk.

This organization was formed by Alexander Lubau0144ski, Marcin Kowalik. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Black Pearls VC, startups are often financed by Techstars, Taavi Raadik, Startupbootcamp. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are United Angels VC, UNIQA Ventures, Trind Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RTAventures VC, National Center for Research & Development, BNP Paribas.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 65 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Estonia. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Insly, EAgronom Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Agriculture, Insurance. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 16-20 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Certifier

$700K04 Oct 2023 -

Swotzy

Logistics
Shipping
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$590K14 Aug 2023 Riga, Riga, Latvia

Traxlo

Retail
Retail Technology
Software
$708K24 May 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

HeavyFinance

AgTech
Banking
Finance
FinTech
$3M23 Mar 2023 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Tapline

FinTech
$2M07 Dec 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Surveily

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Public Safety
Security
$1M29 Sep 2022 Wroclaw, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Autenti

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$10M13 Sep 2022 Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Simpl.rent

Property Management
Rental
$390K29 Jun 2022 Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland

Deor

Animal Feed
Marketplace
Pet
31 Dec 2021 Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland

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Total investments 55
Average round size 933K
Rounds per year 3.67
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 26
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.36

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Certifier

$700K04 Oct 2023 -

Swotzy

Logistics
Shipping
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$590K14 Aug 2023 Riga, Riga, Latvia

Traxlo

Retail
Retail Technology
Software
$708K24 May 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

HeavyFinance

AgTech
Banking
Finance
FinTech
$3M23 Mar 2023 Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Tapline

FinTech
$2M07 Dec 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Surveily

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Public Safety
Security
$1M29 Sep 2022 Wroclaw, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Autenti

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$10M13 Sep 2022 Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Simpl.rent

Property Management
Rental
$390K29 Jun 2022 Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland

Deor

Animal Feed
Marketplace
Pet
31 Dec 2021 Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
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