Explorer Investments
Private equity
Lisbon, Portugal
48
498K
48
2.29
30
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 48
- Lead investments
- 30
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 2.29
- Investments by industry
- Manufacturing (9)
- Retail (5)
- Textiles (4)
- Restaurants (4)
- Health Care (4) Show 57 more
- Investments by region
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- Portugal (43)
- Australia (1)
- Brazil (1)
- Spain (2)
- France (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.08
- Avg. company exit year
- 104
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UpHill | 18 Mar 2024 | Health Care, Education | Early Stage Venture | 8M | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal |
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