DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship

Total investments

26

Average round size

78K

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

2.17

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
PublishingE-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSocial MediamHealthTravelPredictive Analytics

Summary

In 2009 was created DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in Ireland. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Dublin.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, startups are often financed by Enterprise Ireland, NDRC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ireland, Start-Up Chile, Paddy Bolger. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ireland, Act Venture Capital, Tom Kennedy.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50-100 thousands dollars. The average startup value when the investment from DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2013.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Photography, Digital Media. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight VideoElephant. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Ireland.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.17
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Health Care (4)
  • Travel (3)
  • mHealth (3)
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Investments by region
  • Ireland (25)
  • Portugal (1)
Peak activity year
2013

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
118K
Group Appearance index
0.12
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Billfaster 06 Dec 2013 Accounting, Software, Finance, SaaS, Digital Media, Billing Seed 35K Ireland, County Dublin, Ireland
Defiant Games 10 Feb 2014 Video Games, Sensor Seed 35K Dublin, Ireland, County Dublin
Metabob 01 Jan 2022 Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools Seed United States, Kentucky, California
TROCAFONE 16 Nov 2015 Application Software, Electronics (B2C), Internet Retail, Social/Platform Software, E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace, Electronics, Shopping Seed 2M São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Zhanzuo 01 Jul 2006 Internet, Social Media Early Stage Venture 5M Beijing, Dongcheng District, China

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