byFounders

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Total investments

70

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

45

Rounds per year

10.00

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.34

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageMachine LearningSaaSAppsMobile AppsWeb DesignUX DesignWeb Development

Summary

byFounders is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Denmark. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Copenhagen.

The fund was created by Eric Lagier, Tommy Andersen. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the byFounders, startups are often financed by Nordic Makers, Y Combinator, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Nordic Makers, New York Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Scott Kurnit, New York Venture Partners.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, Education. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Denmark. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DrugStars, Greenely, Uizard Technologies

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Martech/AdtechSalesDeep TechConsumer/RetailProductivity Show 12 more
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
536K — 4M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
SEK 1000000000
Fund raised date
2022-02-25

Analytics

Total investments
70
Lead investments
12
Rounds per year
10.00
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Software (29)
  • Artificial Intelligence (13)
  • Mobile Apps (13)
  • Machine Learning (9)
  • SaaS (9)
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Investments by region
  • Denmark (29)
  • United States (16)
  • Sweden (8)
  • Germany (5)
  • Iceland (3)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
9M
Group Appearance index
0.91

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kleoverse 25 Jan 2022 Internet, Software, Service Industry Seed 1M United States, Minnesota, Finland
SuperNormal 04 Jan 2023 Software Seed 10M Stockholm County, Stockholm, Sweden

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