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Financière Saint James

Founders Michael Benabou

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Total investments 75
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 55
Rounds per year 6.82
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 2
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Real Estate
Summary

Financiu00e8re Saint James appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The venture was found in Europe in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Financiu00e8re Saint James is 10-50 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The fund was created by Michael Benabou. The overall number of key employees were 4.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are B2B, Mobile Apps. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spendesk, Shadow, Copper. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Financiu00e8re Saint James, startups are often financed by Wilco, Kima Ventures, eFounders. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GUIBOR, Kima Ventures, XAnge. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Idinvest Partners, XAnge, Serena.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adaptive

$20M11 Mar 2024 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Leeway

E-Signature
Financial Services
Legal Tech
Productivity Tools
Software
$12M07 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Nūmi

Biotechnology
Personal Health
Women's
$3M08 Nov 2023 Suresnes, Ile-de-France, France

Autone

Consumer Goods
Intelligent Systems
Retail Technology
SaaS
$2M05 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Pivot

Financial Services
FinTech
$5M02 Oct 2023 -

Revibe

E-Commerce Platforms
$2M10 Jul 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Revoltrain

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$3M19 Jun 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Elyn

E-Commerce
Vertical Search
$2M08 Mar 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

api.video

Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Video Streaming
$12M13 Dec 2022 Bordeaux, New Aquitaine, France

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Total investments 75
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 6.82
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adaptive

$20M11 Mar 2024 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Leeway

E-Signature
Financial Services
Legal Tech
Productivity Tools
Software
$12M07 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Nūmi

Biotechnology
Personal Health
Women's
$3M08 Nov 2023 Suresnes, Ile-de-France, France

Autone

Consumer Goods
Intelligent Systems
Retail Technology
SaaS
$2M05 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Pivot

Financial Services
FinTech
$5M02 Oct 2023 -

Revibe

E-Commerce Platforms
$2M10 Jul 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Revoltrain

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$3M19 Jun 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Elyn

E-Commerce
Vertical Search
$2M08 Mar 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

api.video

Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
Video Streaming
$12M13 Dec 2022 Bordeaux, New Aquitaine, France
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