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eVentures Africa Fund

Founders Brian Hirman Vincent Kouwenhoven

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$420K
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.45
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Telecommunications
  • Social Media
  • Marketplace
  • News
Summary

eVentures Africa Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in The Netherlands. The main department of described VC is located in the Bussum.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 partaker. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Standard Bank, Industrial Development Corporation, Goodwell Investments.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2015.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Africa. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are News, Social Media. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Nomanini

This organization was formed by Brian Hirman, Vincent Kouwenhoven. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dot Com Zambia

E-Commerce
Shipping
Shopping
$500K09 Sep 2015 Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia

Nomanini

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Payments
SaaS
Software
$600K01 Oct 2012 South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa

Mimiboard

Advertising
News
Publishing
$1M01 Sep 2011 South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa

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Total investments 5
Average round size 420K
Rounds per year 0.45
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.20
Group Appearance index 0.40

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dot Com Zambia

E-Commerce
Shipping
Shopping
$500K09 Sep 2015 Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia

Nomanini

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Payments
SaaS
Software
$600K01 Oct 2012 South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa

Mimiboard

Advertising
News
Publishing
$1M01 Sep 2011 South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa
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