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Total investments 152
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$61M
Portfolio companies 103
Rounds per year 2.81
Lead investments 48
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 14
Key employees 82

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Finance
  • FinTech
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
Summary

FMO appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1970. The company was established in Europe in The Netherlands. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the The Hague.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight InCred, Access Bank Plc., SunFunder. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Finance, Agriculture. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this FMO performs on 17 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 39 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the FMO, startups are often financed by PROPARCO, DASH Ventures, Better Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are International Finance Corporation, PROPARCO, Swedfund International. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by PROPARCO, Shell Ventures, OPIC - Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Paymob

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$22M11 Sep 2024 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Fido

Financial Services
$20M01 Aug 2024 Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

YoLa Fresh

Agriculture
AgTech
B2B
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Supply Chain Management
$7M30 May 2024 Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco

Okra Solar

Energy
Internet of Things
Solar
$7M04 Sep 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mawingu Networks

Information Technology
Internet
ISP
Solar
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M01 Feb 2023 Kenya, Kenya

Validus

Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
15 Dec 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

liwwa

Crowdfunding
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$4M09 Sep 2022 Amman, Amman, Jordan

SolarX Africa

Energy
Solar
$6M01 Sep 2022 Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Paymob

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$50M09 May 2022 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

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Total investments 152
Average round size 61M
Rounds per year 2.81
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 48
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Paymob

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$22M11 Sep 2024 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Fido

Financial Services
$20M01 Aug 2024 Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

YoLa Fresh

Agriculture
AgTech
B2B
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Supply Chain Management
$7M30 May 2024 Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco

Okra Solar

Energy
Internet of Things
Solar
$7M04 Sep 2023 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mawingu Networks

Information Technology
Internet
ISP
Solar
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M01 Feb 2023 Kenya, Kenya

Validus

Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
15 Dec 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

liwwa

Crowdfunding
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$4M09 Sep 2022 Amman, Amman, Jordan

SolarX Africa

Energy
Solar
$6M01 Sep 2022 Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Paymob

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$50M09 May 2022 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
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