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Eight Capital

Founders Vikram Chachra

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Total investments 39
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$31M
Portfolio companies 32
Rounds per year 2.05
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 28
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Mining
  • Cannabis
  • Medical
Summary

In 2005 was created Eight Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Asia in India. The main department of described VC is located in the Mumbai.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Eight Capital performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The fund was created by Vikram Chachra. The overall number of key employees were 4.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight 4Front, Maana, Progressa. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Machine Learning, Restaurants. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Eight Capital, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, GE Ventures, Frost Data Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vikram Chachra, Sino Capital Group, Shell Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by LetsVenture, Cypress Hills Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Progressa

Banking
Credit
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$12M14 Aug 2018 British Columbia

Maana

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Semantic Search
$28M19 Dec 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States

Ressy

Apps
Customer Service
Internet
Real Time
Restaurants
$400K02 Aug 2015 Maharashtra

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Total investments 39
Average round size 31M
Rounds per year 2.05
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 28
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Progressa

Banking
Credit
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$12M14 Aug 2018 British Columbia

Maana

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Semantic Search
$28M19 Dec 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States

Ressy

Apps
Customer Service
Internet
Real Time
Restaurants
$400K02 Aug 2015 Maharashtra
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