Calao Finance

Total investments

24

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

1.71

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningBig DataRoboticsManufacturingFashionEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

In 2010 was created Calao Finance, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Paris.

The current fund was established by Bernard Ochs.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Calao Finance performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Calao Finance, startups are often financed by Groupe Siparex, Xerys, Safran Corporate Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Groupe Siparex, Xerys, Safran Corporate Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Groupe Siparex, Y Combinator, Xerys.

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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Allure Systems, Lucky Cart, ENERTIME. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - France. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Marketing.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
5
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.71
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Software (6)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Big Data (4)
  • Robotics (4)
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Investments by region
  • France (23)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Acwa Robotics 25 Jan 2024 Seed 5M Corse, Bastia, France
Enertime 04 Jul 2014 Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Clean Energy Early Stage Venture 2M Ile-de-France, France
MasteryConnect 14 Dec 2016 Software, E-Learning, SaaS, Education, iOS, Skill Assessment Late Stage Venture 5M Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
The Knotty Tales 13 Sep 2019 Events, Wedding Seed 45K Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

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