Blakeney Management

Total investments

3

Average round size

43M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.11

Lead investments

2

Exits

3

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetConsumer GoodsRetailOnline PortalsInformation ServicesLifestyleFashionSearch EngineShopping

Summary

Blakeney Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1995. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Search Engine, Travel. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Nigeria. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Jumia, Namshi. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Blakeney Management, startups are often financed by Rocket Internet, Kinnevik AB, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rocket Internet, Millicom Systems, JPMorgan Partners (JPMP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rocket Internet, MTN, Summit Partners.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2012. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
3
Lead investments
2
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.11
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • Lifestyle (1)
  • Fashion (1)
  • Retail (1)
  • Consumer Goods (1)
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Investments by region
  • The Netherlands (1)
  • Nigeria (1)
  • United Arab Emirates (1)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
4.58

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Jumia Group 01 Jan 2012 E-Commerce, Internet, Consumer Goods, Retail, Online Portals, Information Services, Search Engine, Shopping Early Stage Venture 47M Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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