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Daphni

Founders Marie Ekeland Mathieu Daix Pierre-Eric Leibovici Pierre-Yves Meerschman Willy Braun

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Total investments 83
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 48
Rounds per year 9.22
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 2
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kolet

$5M13 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Welfaire

Health Insurance
Insurance
$3M30 Jan 2024 Issy-les-moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France

Sora

Employment
Real Estate
$4M04 Jan 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Carbon Maps

Agriculture
Environmental Consulting
Information Technology
$3M05 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Ida

Farming
Food Processing
Fruit
Grocery
$3M15 Nov 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Flow48

Commercial Lending
Finance
Financial Services
$25M09 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Animaj

B2C
Information Services
Media and Entertainment
$25M21 Sep 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

underdog

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Electronics
Retail
$4M01 Mar 2023 Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

Agua Blanca

Beauty
Cosmetics
Delivery
Delivery Service
$3M10 Feb 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
News
Pasqal Raises €25M in Series A Funding

– Pasqal, a French maker of quantum processors, raised €25 M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Quantonation with participation from Runa Capital, Daphni and Eni Next and previously announced commitment by the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund.
– The company intends to use the funds to advance the development of its analog and digital quantum processors, strengthen its applications co-design approach, build its Quantum Computing as a Service hybrid cloud offer as well as initiate international expansion.

Back Market Raises €276M in Series D Funding

– Back Market is a Paris, France-based premier refurbished marketplace dedicated to electronics.
– The company raised €276m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by General Atlantic with support from Generation Investment Management and existing investors Aglaé Ventures, Eurazeo, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and daphni.
– The new investment will be used to consolidate the company’s position as a dedicated marketplace in refurbished electronics.

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Total investments 83
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 9.22
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kolet

$5M13 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Welfaire

Health Insurance
Insurance
$3M30 Jan 2024 Issy-les-moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France

Sora

Employment
Real Estate
$4M04 Jan 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Carbon Maps

Agriculture
Environmental Consulting
Information Technology
$3M05 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Ida

Farming
Food Processing
Fruit
Grocery
$3M15 Nov 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Flow48

Commercial Lending
Finance
Financial Services
$25M09 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Animaj

B2C
Information Services
Media and Entertainment
$25M21 Sep 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

underdog

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Electronics
Retail
$4M01 Mar 2023 Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

Agua Blanca

Beauty
Cosmetics
Delivery
Delivery Service
$3M10 Feb 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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