DOB Equity

Total investments

48

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

1.78

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.42

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
E-CommerceRetailFood and BeverageHealth CareEducationMarketplaceGroceryShoppingAgricultureFarming

Summary

DOB Equity is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The company was established in Europe in The Netherlands. The main department of described VC is located in the Veessen.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight M-KOPA, Twiga Foods, Sendy. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Kenya. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Delivery. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the DOB Equity, startups are often financed by Savannah Fund, Opes Impact Fund, Data Collective DCVC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wamda Capital, AHL Venture Partners, 1776 Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TLcom Capital Partners, International Finance Corporation, LGT Lightstone.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
48
Lead investments
14
Rounds per year
1.78
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Food and Beverage (8)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Agriculture (5)
  • Farming (5)
  • Health Care (5)
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Investments by region
  • Kenya (37)
  • France (1)
  • Germany (1)
  • United States (1)
  • Tanzania (3)
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Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
8M
Group Appearance index
0.56

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kwanza Tukule 02 Jan 2022 B2B, Food and Beverage, Nutrition Seed Nairobi Area, Nairobi, Kenya
Moringa School 06 May 2020 Education Seed 1M Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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