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Forward Venture Capital

Founders Ruud Dekker Vincent Wols

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Total investments 51
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 6.38
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
Summary

In 2016 was created Forward Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in The Netherlands. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Den Haag.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Forward Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Kickstart Seed Fund, Foundry Group, Chicago Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kickstart Seed Fund, Prelude Ventures, Foundry Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Stage 2 Capital, Prelude Ventures, Lerer Hippeau.

The current fund was established by Ruud Dekker, Vincent Wols. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Marketing. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Havenly, Blue Matador, DanAds The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Niricson

Asset Management
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$7M02 Aug 2023 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Elements Advisors

Advice
Apps
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$5M24 Jan 2023 South Jordan, Utah, United States

Schola

Education
Marketing
Secondary Education
$10M28 Dec 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

UrbanFox

Consumer
E-Commerce
Marketing
Sales
$4M12 Nov 2022 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

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Banking
Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$708K06 Oct 2022 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

Trinsic

Developer APIs
Identity Management
Information Services
Information Technology
$8M29 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States

Pipra

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
SaaS
Software
$2M16 Jun 2022 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Chek

Debit Cards
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
22 Mar 2022 New York, New York, United States

Proof Technology

Information Technology
Legal
Legal Tech
Software
$5M08 Mar 2022 Denver, Colorado, United States

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Total investments 51
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 6.38
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.35
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Niricson

Asset Management
Infrastructure
Predictive Analytics
Productivity Tools
$7M02 Aug 2023 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Elements Advisors

Advice
Apps
Financial Services
Software
Web Apps
$5M24 Jan 2023 South Jordan, Utah, United States

Schola

Education
Marketing
Secondary Education
$10M28 Dec 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

UrbanFox

Consumer
E-Commerce
Marketing
Sales
$4M12 Nov 2022 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Enable Banking

Banking
Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$708K06 Oct 2022 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

Trinsic

Developer APIs
Identity Management
Information Services
Information Technology
$8M29 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States

Pipra

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
SaaS
Software
$2M16 Jun 2022 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Chek

Debit Cards
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
22 Mar 2022 New York, New York, United States

Proof Technology

Information Technology
Legal
Legal Tech
Software
$5M08 Mar 2022 Denver, Colorado, United States
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