DIFC FinTech Hive

Total investments

52

Average round size

237K

Portfolio companies

48

Rounds per year

7.43

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

4

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobilePaymentsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningInsurTech

Summary

DIFC FinTech Hive appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Dubai. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in United Arab Emirates.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 participant. Despite the DIFC FinTech Hive, startups are often financed by Shorooq Partners, Startupbootcamp, 500 Startups. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 500 Startups, Startupbootcamp, Shorooq Partners.

The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this DIFC FinTech Hive works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Insurance, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Delio, Semantify, WeInvest. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
52
Lead investments
10
Exits
4
Rounds per year
7.43
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (23)
  • Financial Services (21)
  • Artificial Intelligence (13)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Payments (9)
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Investments by region
  • United Arab Emirates (19)
  • Kenya (2)
  • Switzerland (2)
  • Egypt (1)
  • Singapore (4)
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Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.12
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.81

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Spare Payments 08 Aug 2018 E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail Technology, Payments, Electronics Seed 100K Cairo Governorate, Cairo, Egypt
Tarabut Gateway 26 Nov 2020 Financial Services, FinTech, Banking Seed 0 Bahrain, Capital Governorate, Manama
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