BlackFin Capital Partners

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

53

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

3.53

Lead investments

24

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

7

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsFinanceArtificial IntelligenceSaaSBankingInsuranceInsurTech

Summary

In 2009 was created BlackFin Capital Partners, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris.

The current fund was established by Bruno Rostain, Eric May, Laurent Bouyoux, Paul Mizrahi. Besides them, we counted 34 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the BlackFin Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Playfair Capital, Paul Forster, Passion Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are e.ventures, Playfair Capital, Passion Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rabobank, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Cathay Capital Private Equity.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - France. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Payments. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ViaBill, Epsor, Pretto. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

Comparing to the other companies, this BlackFin Capital Partners performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechInsurtech
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 36 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 390000000
Fund raised date
2022-07-12

Analytics

Total investments
53
Lead investments
24
Exits
7
Rounds per year
3.53
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (28)
  • FinTech (25)
  • Insurance (11)
  • Software (11)
  • Banking (10)
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Investments by region
  • France (32)
  • Germany (7)
  • Denmark (3)
  • Finland (1)
  • United Kingdom (2)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
10M
Group Appearance index
0.66
Avg. company exit year
20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
FINLEX 12 Aug 2021 Financial Services, Insurance, Commercial Insurance, Risk Management Early Stage Venture 9M Hessen, Frankfurt, Germany
Memo Bank 15 Jun 2021 Financial Services, Finance, Banking Early Stage Venture 15M Ile-de-France, Paris, France

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