Convergence Partners

Total investments

40

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

2.35

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileInformation ServicesEnterprise SoftwareSemiconductorTelecommunicationsWirelessNetwork Hardware

Summary

Convergence Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The company was established in Africa in South Africa. The main department of described VC is located in the Johannesburg.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Service Industry, Information Services. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CSquared, Snapt, Vectiv. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Convergence Partners, startups are often financed by Weber Capital, San Francisco Equity Partners, vSpring Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Weber Capital, San Francisco Equity Partners, vSpring Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by vSpring Capital, Weber Capital, San Francisco Equity Partners.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Convergence Partners performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Convergence Partners is 50-100 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by Andile Ngcaba, Brandon Doyle, Eric Di Benedetto, Idan Segal, Russ Irwin, Stefan Ferreira. The overall number of key employees were 5.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
13
Exits
6
Rounds per year
2.35
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (14)
  • Software (12)
  • Information Services (9)
  • Mobile (8)
  • Internet (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • Kenya (1)
  • South Africa (6)
  • Nigeria (1)
  • Malawi (2)
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Peak activity year
2000

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.57
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
0.70

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
01 Jan 2014FinTech, AnalyticsSeed1MEngland, London, United Kingdom
Penguin Computing16 Oct 2007Software, Information Technology, Information Services, Enterprise SoftwareLate Stage Venture3MUnited States, California, San Francisco
RUTI30 Oct 2019E-Commerce, Fashion, Local, ShoppingEarly Stage Venture6MUnited States, California, Palo Alto
Seoul Ventures25 Oct 2019E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology, Web DevelopmentSeed87KSeoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Yellow27 Mar 2023Internet, Last Mile Transportation, Transportation, Software, Mobile, Mobile Payments, Bitcoin, Ride Sharing, Public TransportationEarly Stage Venture14MMalawi, Lilongwe, Lilongwe

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