DNB

Total investments

28

Average round size

80M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

0.14

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Debt
Areas of investment
FinTechInformation TechnologyBankingMarketplaceCreditEnergyRenewable EnergySolarPrice ComparisonLead Generation

Summary

DNB is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1822. The company was established in Europe in Norway. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Oslo.

When the investment is from DNB the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this DNB works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Banking. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Denmark. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Nordic API Gateway, Spiir, SantoSolve

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the DNB, startups are often financed by ITOCHU Corporation, Good Energies, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Danske Bank, Teknoinvest, Swedbank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Teknoinvest, MP Pensjon, Investinor.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
28
Lead investments
5
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.14
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Energy (7)
  • Banking (6)
  • Renewable Energy (6)
  • FinTech (5)
  • Solar (4)
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Investments by region
  • Ireland (2)
  • Sweden (4)
  • Norway (15)
  • Iceland (1)
  • United States (2)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
82M
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fonn Construction 26 Feb 2019 Software, Construction Seed 990K Vestfold og Telemark, Norway, Norway

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