DBS Bank

Total investments

49

Average round size

477M

Portfolio companies

42

Rounds per year

0.88

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

20

Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceFinancial ServicesSalesFood and BeverageDeliveryManufacturingEnergyRenewable EnergySolar

Summary

DBS Bank is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1968. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Singapore. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Singapore.

Besides them, we counted 19 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Food and Beverage, Consumer. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Teabox, Grain, Kasisto. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Singapore. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from DBS Bank is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this DBS Bank works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the DBS Bank, startups are often financed by Accel, 500 Startups, Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Nippon Venture Capital, Vertex Management, Venrock. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by United Overseas Bank, Two Sigma Ventures, Propel Venture Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
10
Exits
20
Rounds per year
0.88
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Energy (10)
  • E-Commerce (7)
  • Financial Services (7)
  • Solar (6)
  • Renewable Energy (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
  • India (12)
  • Singapore (19)
  • China (7)
  • Australia (2)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
27
Avg. valuation at time of investment
242M
Group Appearance index
0.63
Avg. company exit year
30
Avg. multiplicator
0.15
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Partior 03 Nov 2022 Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain Early Stage Venture 31M Central Region, Singapore, Singapore
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