BNP Paribas Fortis

Type

Bank

Status

Active

Total investments

20

Average round size

94M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

1.25

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
LogisticsBiotechnologySoftwareRetail TechnologyE-LearningHuman ResourcesHealth CareSaaSEducationPharmaceutical

Summary

BNP Paribas Fortis is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2008. The company was established in Europe in Belgium. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Brussels.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the BNP Paribas Fortis, startups are often financed by S.R.I.W., Vesalius Biocapital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vesalius Biocapital Partners, University of Leuven, Ulster Bank Ireland.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This BNP Paribas Fortis works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight reMYND, Ogeda. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Biotechnology. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Belgium.

We also calculated 13 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
0
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.25
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Logistics (4)
  • Software (4)
  • Health Care (3)
  • SaaS (3)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (1)
  • Belgium (15)
  • Ireland (1)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
105M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.32
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ogeda 02 Oct 2015 Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 18M Brussels-Capital, City of Brussels, Belgium
Vaultspeed 16 Nov 2023 Software, SaaS Early Stage Venture 17M Flemish Brabant, Leuven, Belgium

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