B&Y Venture Partners

Total investments

46

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

35

Rounds per year

5.11

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobilePaymentsFinanceArtificial IntelligenceApps

Summary

In 2015 was created B&Y Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Lebanon. The main department of described VC is located in the Beirut.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Affectiva, Seez, Monito. 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 needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Software. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The current fund was established by Abdallah Yafi, Ghaith Yafi. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the B&Y Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Wamda Capital, Dubai Angel Investors, BECO Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Phoenician Funds, Saned Partners, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trend Forward Capital, Motley Fool Ventures, InnoVen Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
46
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
5.11
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (15)
  • Financial Services (10)
  • FinTech (10)
  • Apps (9)
  • Software (9)
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Investments by region
  • United Arab Emirates (18)
  • Pakistan (2)
  • United States (8)
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • Lebanon (5)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.17

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bazaar Technologies 15 Mar 2022 E-Commerce, Retail, B2B, Marketplace Early Stage Venture 70M Sindh, Karachi, Pakistan
Finverity 30 Mar 2023 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Enterprise Software, Credit Seed 5M England, London, United Kingdom

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