C4 Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

62

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

46

Rounds per year

5.17

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSFashionHardwareConsumer Electronics

Summary

C4 Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

This organization was formed by Pascal Cagni. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the C4 Ventures, startups are often financed by Pitango Venture Capital, Playfair Capital, Pascal Cagni. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pitango Venture Capital, Pascal Cagni, Partech. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Planven Investments, New Enterprise Associates.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from C4 Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this C4 Ventures performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Graphcore, Formlabs, Anki. The fund has no exact preference 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. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Hardware.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HardwareEcommerceFuture of Work
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 88000000
Fund raised date
2020-06-01

Analytics

Total investments
62
Lead investments
12
Exits
5
Rounds per year
5.17
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Software (19)
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • Hardware (13)
  • Internet (10)
  • Fashion (8)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (14)
  • United States (16)
  • France (19)
  • Austria (2)
  • Italy (2)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
354M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Beam 03 Feb 2021 Internet, Software, Web Development, Web Browsers Early Stage Venture 9M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
VoltR 01 Dec 2023 Seed 2M Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France

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