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Calao Finance

Founders Bernard Ochs

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 1.79
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 2
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Robotics
  • Big Data
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Acwa Robotics

$5M25 Jan 2024 Bastia, Corse, France

AquaTech Innovation

Waste Management
Water
Water Purification
$2M10 Oct 2023 Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

BMI System

Compliance
Information Technology
Life Science
Software
$2M01 Mar 2020 France, Ile-de-France

Herow

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Machine Learning
Mobile
$18M15 Oct 2019 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Software
Sports
$7M26 Jun 2019 France, Corsica

Diota

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
Software
$8M29 Jan 2019 France, Ile-de-France, France

ForePaaS

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Information Technology
PaaS
SaaS
$10M07 Dec 2017 France, Ile-de-France, France

Allure Systems

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
E-Commerce
Fashion
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
$3M05 Sep 2017 New York, United States

Diota

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
Software
$3M19 Sep 2016 Ile-de-France

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Total investments 25
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 1.79
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Acwa Robotics

$5M25 Jan 2024 Bastia, Corse, France

AquaTech Innovation

Waste Management
Water
Water Purification
$2M10 Oct 2023 Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

BMI System

Compliance
Information Technology
Life Science
Software
$2M01 Mar 2020 France, Ile-de-France

Herow

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Machine Learning
Mobile
$18M15 Oct 2019 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Software
Sports
$7M26 Jun 2019 France, Corsica

Diota

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
Software
$8M29 Jan 2019 France, Ile-de-France, France

ForePaaS

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Information Technology
PaaS
SaaS
$10M07 Dec 2017 France, Ile-de-France, France

Allure Systems

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
E-Commerce
Fashion
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
$3M05 Sep 2017 New York, United States

Diota

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
Software
$3M19 Sep 2016 Ile-de-France
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