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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.22
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 3
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Retail
  • Finance
  • Non Profit
  • Loyalty Programs
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1990 was created Direct Group, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Doncaster.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Direct Group, startups are often financed by Fastlane Ventures, e.ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Fastlane Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners, e.ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Fastlane Ventures, TA Ventures, Sirin Labs.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Finance, Shopping. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Russian Federation. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight KupiVIP, IQcard, Sapato.ru. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2013. Comparing to the other companies, this Direct Group performs on 0 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IQcard

Finance
Information Technology
Loyalty Programs
Non Profit
Retail
$3M23 Dec 2013 Moscow

Teamo.ru

Dating
Social Media
Social Network
$2M01 Nov 2012 Moscow

IQcard

Finance
Information Technology
Loyalty Programs
Non Profit
Retail
$1M01 Jul 2012 Moscow

Sapato.ru

E-Commerce
Retail
Shopping
$12M09 Jun 2011 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

KupiVIP

E-Commerce
Fashion
Internet
Shopping
$55M14 Apr 2011 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

KupiBonus

E-Commerce
01 Jul 2010 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

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Total investments 7
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 0.22
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IQcard

Finance
Information Technology
Loyalty Programs
Non Profit
Retail
$3M23 Dec 2013 Moscow

Teamo.ru

Dating
Social Media
Social Network
$2M01 Nov 2012 Moscow

IQcard

Finance
Information Technology
Loyalty Programs
Non Profit
Retail
$1M01 Jul 2012 Moscow

Sapato.ru

E-Commerce
Retail
Shopping
$12M09 Jun 2011 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

KupiVIP

E-Commerce
Fashion
Internet
Shopping
$55M14 Apr 2011 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

KupiBonus

E-Commerce
01 Jul 2010 Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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