Blue Haven Initiative

Total investments

23

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

2.09

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Financial ServicesHuman ResourcesHealth CarePharmaceuticalElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergyCommercial LendingSolarClean Energy

Summary

In 2012 was created Blue Haven Initiative, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Cambridge. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Ian Simmons, Liesel Simmons.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mosaic, M-KOPA, PEG. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Clean Energy, Digital Media.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Blue Haven Initiative, startups are often financed by Spring Ventures, Investisseurs & Partenaires, Ignition Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Energy Access Ventures, Serious Change, Lundin Foundation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TLcom Capital Partners, SunFunder, International Finance Corporation.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Blue Haven Initiative performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2014.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.09
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Energy (6)
  • Solar (5)
  • Financial Services (5)
  • Human Resources (3)
  • Pharmaceutical (3)
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Investments by region
  • Kenya (7)
  • United States (7)
  • Ghana (3)
  • Senegal (2)
  • Nigeria (1)
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Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
441K
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
11
Strategy success index
0.10

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