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CIIE

Founders Kunal Upadhyay

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$550K
Portfolio companies 62
Rounds per year 4.06
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Education
  • AgTech
  • SaaS
Summary

CIIE appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The company was established in Asia in India. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Ahmedabad.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Internet of Things. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bellatrix Aerospace, Barrix Agro Sciences, Detect Technologies. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the CIIE, startups are often financed by VilCap Investments, Mahindra finance, Indian Angel Network. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are growX ventures, Axilor Ventures, Artha India Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Omnivore, GVFL, Bharat Innovation Fund.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The high activity for fund was in 2013. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this CIIE performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from CIIE the average startup value is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Butterfly Learnings

Medical
$4M10 Apr 2024 Thane, Maharashtra, India

Curelo

Apps
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
$1M04 Apr 2024 Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Basil

$468K19 Feb 2024 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Curelo

Apps
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
$100K11 Oct 2023 Gurgaon, Haryana, India

YouVah

Education
Primary Education
$226K04 Oct 2023 Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Dreamfly Innovations

Aerospace
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$300K15 Sep 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Qlan

$221K28 Jun 2023 -

Unicohub

Mobile
Social Media
Software
$299K28 Mar 2023 -

Chara Technologies

$5M17 Jan 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Total investments 69
Average round size 550K
Rounds per year 4.06
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Butterfly Learnings

Medical
$4M10 Apr 2024 Thane, Maharashtra, India

Curelo

Apps
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
$1M04 Apr 2024 Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Basil

$468K19 Feb 2024 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Curelo

Apps
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
$100K11 Oct 2023 Gurgaon, Haryana, India

YouVah

Education
Primary Education
$226K04 Oct 2023 Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Dreamfly Innovations

Aerospace
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$300K15 Sep 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Qlan

$221K28 Jun 2023 -

Unicohub

Mobile
Social Media
Software
$299K28 Mar 2023 -

Chara Technologies

$5M17 Jan 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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