Ferd Capital

Summary

Ferd Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Lysaker. The venture was found in Europe in Norway.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ARKeX, Smarterphone, Siving Egil Kvaleberg. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Software. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Norway. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Ferd Capital, startups are often financed by Teknoinvest, Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden), Innovacom. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Teknoinvest, Viking Venture Management, Northzone. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Industrifonden, Teknoinvest, HealthCap.

When the investment is from Ferd Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2007. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Ferd Capital works on 24 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.