E-Merge

Type

Angel Group/Syndicate

Location

Brussels, Belgium

Total investments

63

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

57

Rounds per year

2.52

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

16

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyMobilePaymentsHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

E-Merge is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The company was established in Europe in Belgium. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Brussels.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the E-Merge, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, KEC Ventures, Healthy Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, KEC Ventures, Healthy Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Slow Ventures, Accomplice, Techstars Ventures.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as FinTech, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cabify, Rappi, Spire Global. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The current fund was established by Gru00e9gory Hu00e9do, Laurent Drion. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from E-Merge is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This E-Merge works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Analytics

Total investments
63
Lead investments
5
Exits
16
Rounds per year
2.52
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Software (22)
  • SaaS (16)
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • FinTech (12)
  • Internet (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (52)
  • Belgium (7)
  • Spain (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Colombia (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
180M
Group Appearance index
0.76
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
4.97
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Emburse 22 Mar 2016 Software, FinTech, Business Intelligence, Network Security, Management Information Systems Seed 120K United States, California, Los Angeles
Invopop 20 Jan 2021 Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS, Developer APIs, Compliance Seed 649K Madrid, Madrid, Spain
TeamElysium 30 Apr 2018 Software, Fitness, Medical Seed Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Seocho, South Korea

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