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Brightly Ventures

Founders Andy Johnston John Elvesjo Katja Bergman Kerstin Cooley

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 4.67
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Payments
  • Consulting
  • Information Services
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Stockholm. The company was established in Europe in Sweden.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Brightly Ventures, startups are often financed by Norrsken Foundation, NFT Ventures, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Swedbank, Spintop Ventures, Luminar Ventures.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kaching Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Sweden. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Retail Technology, Retail.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adway

Human Resources
Marketing Automation
Recruiting
Social Recruiting
Software
$11M16 Nov 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Worldfavor

Business Development
Information Services
Software
Sustainability
$12M23 Aug 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Zevoy

$17M11 Apr 2022 -

Collective Minds Radiology

Consulting
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Information Technology
Internet
$2M21 Dec 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Hooked Foods

Food and Beverage
$4M22 Sep 2021 Sweden, Stockholm County, Sweden

Zevoy

$4M05 Sep 2021 -

Starmony

Music
Professional Services
$3M20 Jul 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Fast Travel Games

Digital Entertainment
Gamification
Gaming
Virtual Reality
$4M01 Jul 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Adway

Human Resources
Marketing Automation
Recruiting
Social Recruiting
Software
$3M01 Jun 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

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Total investments 28
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 4.67
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.39
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adway

Human Resources
Marketing Automation
Recruiting
Social Recruiting
Software
$11M16 Nov 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Worldfavor

Business Development
Information Services
Software
Sustainability
$12M23 Aug 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Zevoy

$17M11 Apr 2022 -

Collective Minds Radiology

Consulting
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Information Technology
Internet
$2M21 Dec 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Hooked Foods

Food and Beverage
$4M22 Sep 2021 Sweden, Stockholm County, Sweden

Zevoy

$4M05 Sep 2021 -

Starmony

Music
Professional Services
$3M20 Jul 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Fast Travel Games

Digital Entertainment
Gamification
Gaming
Virtual Reality
$4M01 Jul 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Adway

Human Resources
Marketing Automation
Recruiting
Social Recruiting
Software
$3M01 Jun 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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