Ethos Private Equity

Total investments

15

Average round size

37M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

0.38

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobilePaymentsMessagingMobile PaymentsBankingTelecommunicationsCall Center

Summary

In 1984 was created Ethos Private Equity, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Johannesburg. The venture was found in Africa in South Africa.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Ethos Private Equity, startups are often financed by Musa Capital, Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), Development Partners International. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tom Noonan, PGi (Premiere Global Services), Hawthorne Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, Swedfund International, Nedbank.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SMS, Financial Services. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ChannelVAS, Izenda, Voxa For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

We also calculated 13 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Ethos Private Equity works on 13 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
9
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.38
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (6)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Banking (4)
  • Telecommunications (3)
  • Payments (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • South Africa (7)
  • United Arab Emirates (2)
  • United States (4)
  • Togo (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
368M
Group Appearance index
0.60
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
5.38
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
TymeBank 10 Jun 2019 Financial Services, Information Technology, Payments, Banking Early Stage Venture 13M Gauteng, South Africa, South Africa

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