E3 Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Nairobi, Kenya

Total investments

41

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

4.56

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.51

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Financial ServicesFood and BeverageElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergyCommercial LendingSolarClean EnergyAgricultureElectrical Distribution

Summary

The company was established in Europe in France. The main department of described VC is located in the Paris.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. 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. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Kenya. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Food and Beverage. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PEG, SunCulture, Mawingu Networks.

The current fund was established by Emmanuel Beau, Michael H. Gera. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Energy Access Ventures, startups are often financed by Aster, Vulcan Capital, Village Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Electrification Financing Initiative, Blue Haven Initiative, Pymwymic. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SunFunder, Electrification Financing Initiative, United States Agency for International Development.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Analytics

Total investments
41
Lead investments
10
Rounds per year
4.56
Follow on index
0.51
Investments by industry
  • Solar (23)
  • Energy (23)
  • Agriculture (7)
  • Renewable Energy (6)
  • Financial Services (5)
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Investments by region
  • Netherlands (4)
  • Kenya (12)
  • Ghana (3)
  • United States (3)
  • Senegal (2)
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Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.85

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
PayGo Energy 29 Aug 2018 Clean Energy, Oil and Gas Early Stage Venture 3M Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
YoLa Fresh 30 May 2024 E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management, B2B, Food and Beverage, AgTech, Agriculture Seed 7M Morocco, Grand Casablanca, Casablanca

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