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Explorer Investments

Founders Elizabeth Rothfield Rodrigo Guimaraes

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Total investments 49
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$488K
Portfolio companies 49
Rounds per year 2.33
Lead investments 30
Exits 2
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Restaurants
  • Textiles
  • Health Care
Summary

Explorer Investments appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2003. The venture was found in Europe in Portugal. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Lisboa.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Explorer Investments, startups are often financed by Portugal Ventures, Ask Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Alantra. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Armada Credit Partners, Alantra, AXIS Participaciones Empresariales.

The real fund results show that this VC is 73 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this Explorer Investments performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Manufacturing, Food and Beverage. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline NMusic, Nutricafes For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Portugal. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Elizabeth Rothfield, Rodrigo Guimaru00e3es. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sensei

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
E-Commerce
Retail
Retail Technology
22 Oct 2024 Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

UpHill

Education
Health Care
$8M18 Mar 2024 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

BHOUT

Fitness
Sports
Wellness
$11M09 Nov 2023 Lisboa, Portugal

Okra Solar

Energy
Internet of Things
Solar
$2M02 May 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

SMARKIO

Business Information Systems
Business Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Marketing
$1M27 Apr 2016 Portugal, Portugal

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Total investments 49
Average round size 488K
Rounds per year 2.33
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 30
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.10

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sensei

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
E-Commerce
Retail
Retail Technology
22 Oct 2024 Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

UpHill

Education
Health Care
$8M18 Mar 2024 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

BHOUT

Fitness
Sports
Wellness
$11M09 Nov 2023 Lisboa, Portugal

Okra Solar

Energy
Internet of Things
Solar
$2M02 May 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

SMARKIO

Business Information Systems
Business Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Marketing
$1M27 Apr 2016 Portugal, Portugal
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