Contrarian Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
Vilnius, Lithuania
44
5M
25
6.29
11
0.41
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Contrarian Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The company was established in Europe in Lithuania. The main department of described VC is located in the Vilnius.
Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.
This organization was formed by Marc Wesselink, Nityen Lal, Ori Glezer, Rokas Peciulaitis, Tom Bronfeld.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Energy Storage. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Switchee.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Contrarian Ventures, startups are often financed by Innovate UK, Y Combinator, Wayra. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are First Imagine! Ventures, Thorgate Ventures, The Westly Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Startup Wise Guys, Plug and Play.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 1M — 4M
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- EUR 100000000
- Fund raised date
- 2022-08-17
Analytics
- Total investments
- 44
- Lead investments
- 11
- Rounds per year
- 6.29
- Follow on index
- 0.41
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (11)
- Renewable Energy (11)
- Software (10)
- Logistics (8)
- Energy (7) Show 42 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (7)
- Australia (5)
- Lithuania (12)
- Norway (2)
- France (4) Show 7 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 634K
- Group Appearance index
- 0.73
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BeZero Carbon | 14 Nov 2022 | Information Technology, Information Services | Early Stage Venture | 50M | England, London, United Kingdom |
| Switchee | 06 Jun 2018 | Consumer Electronics, Energy Efficiency | Seed | 1M | England, London, United Kingdom |
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