CDC Group

Total investments

131

Average round size

53M

Portfolio companies

90

Rounds per year

1.72

Lead investments

35

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

21

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceInternetFinancial ServicesFinTechFinanceHealth CareBankingEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

In 1948 was created CDC Group, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Jumia, BigBasket, Janalakshmi The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Retail. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 16-20 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the CDC Group, startups are often financed by International Finance Corporation, Rocket Internet, Elevar Equity. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs, University Ventures, Rocket Internet. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by University Ventures, HDFC Standard Life Insurance, Goldman Sachs.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this CDC Group works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from CDC Group the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
131
Lead investments
35
Exits
21
Rounds per year
1.72
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (34)
  • Finance (17)
  • E-Commerce (16)
  • Logistics (15)
  • Internet (15)
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Investments by region
  • India (55)
  • Mauritius (5)
  • Nigeria (8)
  • Kenya (11)
  • United Kingdom (5)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
195M
Group Appearance index
0.57
Avg. company exit year
35
Avg. multiplicator
2.45
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
TeamApt 02 Jul 2021 Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Banking Early Stage Venture Lagos, Nigeria, Nigeria
TradeDepot 06 Dec 2021 E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, B2B Early Stage Venture 42M Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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