Blue Horizon

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Zurich, Switzerland

Total investments

86

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

63

Rounds per year

10.75

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.26

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyFood and BeverageFood ProcessingHealth CareAppsManufacturingSustainabilityNutritionOrganic FoodAgriculture

Summary

In 2016 was created Blue Horizon Corporation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Zu00fcrich.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Sustainability, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline abillionveg, Good Catch

The current fund was established by Roger Lienhard.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Blue Horizon Corporation, startups are often financed by Venture Kick, GreenSoil Investments, Vikas Garg. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 1/0 Capital, Triodos Investment Management, Joyance Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shailesh Rao, Calibre Ventures, Adam Levinson.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life SciencesAgricultureClimate techFoodtech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 183000000
Fund raised date
2021-01-20

Analytics

Total investments
86
Lead investments
4
Rounds per year
10.75
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Food and Beverage (49)
  • Food Processing (33)
  • Biotechnology (25)
  • Sustainability (14)
  • Nutrition (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (38)
  • Canada (5)
  • United Kingdom (7)
  • Switzerland (6)
  • Singapore (5)
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Peak activity year
2018
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
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
106M
Group Appearance index
0.43
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Apparo 13 May 2022 Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition Early Stage Venture 3M United States, Minnesota, Eden Prairie
Cultivated Biosciences 05 Sep 2022 Food Processing Seed 1M Switzerland, Zurich, Wädenswil

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