Daphni Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

87

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

51

Rounds per year

9.67

Lead investments

25

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyHuman ResourcesFood and BeverageBankingMarketplaceComputer

Summary

In 2015 was created Daphni, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Paris. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Daphni, startups are often financed by Kima Ventures, The Family, Partech. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Partech, Kima Ventures, Idinvest Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Partech, Kima Ventures, XAnge.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Daphni works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 31 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

This organization was formed by Marie Ekeland, Mathieu Daix, Pierre-Eric Leibovici, Pierre-Yves Meerschman, Willy Braun. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Back Market, Butterfly.ai, Keakr Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Internet.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistEcommerceEdtechFintechHealthcare Show 16 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 38 more
Check size
536K — 11M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
87
Lead investments
25
Exits
2
Rounds per year
9.67
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (16)
  • Software (12)
  • Internet (12)
  • Information Technology (12)
  • Financial Services (11)
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Investments by region
  • France (73)
  • United States (11)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
134M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
2
Avg. multiplicator
3.73
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Flash Valet 19 Sep 2012 Software, Mobile, SaaS, Mobile Payments Early Stage Venture 1M United States, Texas, Austin
Goshaba 03 Mar 2022 Information Technology, Human Resources, Consulting Early Stage Venture 4M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
underdog 01 Mar 2023 E-Commerce, Retail, Electronics, Customer Service Seed 4M Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France

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