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CDC Group

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Total investments 129
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$53M
Portfolio companies 90
Rounds per year 1.70
Lead investments 35
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 21
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Finance
  • E-Commerce
  • Logistics
  • 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jingsil Intelligent

Electrical Distribution
Manufacturing
Smart Building
$15M23 May 2022 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Paymob

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$50M09 May 2022 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Apollo Agriculture

Agriculture
Farmers Market
Financial Services
Machine Learning
$40M21 Mar 2022 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Loadshare Networks Pvt Ltd

Delivery Service
Industrial Automation
Logistics
Software
Supply Chain Management
$39M01 Feb 2022 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

TymeBank

Banking
Financial Services
Information Technology
Payments
$70M21 Dec 2021 South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa

Tyme

Banking
Financial Services
Internet
$70M07 Dec 2021 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

TradeDepot

B2B
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$42M06 Dec 2021 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Vayana Network

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$36M11 Nov 2021 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Medikabazaar

B2B
Dental
Health Care
Marketplace
Medical Device
$55M22 Sep 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Total investments 129
Average round size 53M
Rounds per year 1.70
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 35
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 21
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jingsil Intelligent

Electrical Distribution
Manufacturing
Smart Building
$15M23 May 2022 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Paymob

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$50M09 May 2022 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Apollo Agriculture

Agriculture
Farmers Market
Financial Services
Machine Learning
$40M21 Mar 2022 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Loadshare Networks Pvt Ltd

Delivery Service
Industrial Automation
Logistics
Software
Supply Chain Management
$39M01 Feb 2022 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

TymeBank

Banking
Financial Services
Information Technology
Payments
$70M21 Dec 2021 South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa

Tyme

Banking
Financial Services
Internet
$70M07 Dec 2021 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

TradeDepot

B2B
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$42M06 Dec 2021 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Vayana Network

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$36M11 Nov 2021 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Medikabazaar

B2B
Dental
Health Care
Marketplace
Medical Device
$55M22 Sep 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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