eFounders

Total investments

51

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

3.92

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.55

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechB2BPaymentsSaaSCollaborationEnterprise SoftwareCredit Cards

Summary

In 2011 was created eFounders, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the eFounders, startups are often financed by Alven Capital, Newfund Capital, Kima Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Alven Capital, Kima Ventures, Andrew Nutter. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Alven Capital, Kima Ventures, Index Ventures.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - France. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spendesk, Front App, Upflow. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are B2B, Financial Services. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this eFounders performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The fund was created by Quentin Nickmans, Thibaud Elziere.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
51
Lead investments
1
Exits
5
Rounds per year
3.92
Follow on index
0.55
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (34)
  • Software (33)
  • B2B (16)
  • Financial Services (14)
  • FinTech (14)
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Investments by region
  • France (44)
  • United States (4)
  • Canada (1)
  • Belgium (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
154M
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mailjet 24 Mar 2014 Internet, B2B, Marketing Automation, SaaS, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Developer APIs, Email Marketing, Email Early Stage Venture 3M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Upflow 22 Apr 2024 Software, Financial Services, FinTech, B2B, Payments, SaaS, E-Commerce Platforms, Billing Early Stage Venture 5M Ile-de-France, Paris, France

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