BlueOrchard Finance S A

Type

Hedge fund

Status

Active

Location

Zurich, Switzerland

Total investments

34

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

1.48

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
Financial ServicesFinTechFinanceSmall and Medium BusinessesBankingInsuranceRenewable EnergyLendingElectric VehicleMicro Lending

Summary

In 2001 was created BlueOrchard Finance S A, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Geneva. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Switzerland.

The typical startup value when the investment from BlueOrchard Finance S A is 1-5 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 50 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Access Bank Plc., Svasti Microfinance, Skymet Weather Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Financial Exchanges, Banking.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the BlueOrchard Finance S A, startups are often financed by Omnivore, Lok Capital, CapitalG. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Omnivore, Oikocredit International, Mumbai Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by responsAbility, Nordic Microfinance Initiative, CapitalG.

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Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
14
Exits
4
Rounds per year
1.48
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (25)
  • Finance (17)
  • FinTech (12)
  • Micro Lending (6)
  • Small and Medium Businesses (4)
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Investments by region
  • India (27)
  • Vietnam (1)
  • Nigeria (2)
  • Senegal (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2024
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
63M
Group Appearance index
0.41
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Pula Advisors 15 Apr 2024 Agriculture Early Stage Venture 20M Switzerland, Glarus, Glarus Nord

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