Development Partners International

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

30

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

1.76

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.03

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
LogisticsFinancial ServicesFinTechRetailMobilePaymentsFood ProcessingManufacturingPharmaceuticalTelecommunications

Summary

In 2007 was created Development Partners International, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Development Partners International works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Telecommunications, Food Processing. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Cu00f4te d'Ivoire. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ChannelVAS, Banque Atlantique, Food Concepts Plc. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 16-20 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Miles Morland, Runa Alam.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Development Partners International, startups are often financed by AfricInvest, Truffle Capital, Musa Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Thawer Capital Management (UK). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pioneer Foods, Mediterrania Capital Partners, HarbourVest Partners.

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 900000000
Fund raised date
2021-10-05

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
11
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.76
Follow on index
0.03
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (9)
  • Manufacturing (7)
  • Retail (5)
  • Food Processing (4)
  • Telecommunications (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Arab Emirates (3)
  • Egypt (4)
  • Cu00f4te d'Ivoire (3)
  • South Africa (5)
  • Tunisia (1)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
26
Avg. valuation at time of investment
65M
Group Appearance index
0.37
Avg. company exit year
38
Avg. multiplicator
5.43
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ukheshe Technologies 07 Dec 2022 Financial Services, Payments, Credit Cards, Debit Cards Early Stage Venture 40M Gauteng, Johannesburg, South Africa

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