Founders

Type

Startup studio

Status

Active

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Total investments

44

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

3.67

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.50

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AccountingInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologySalesPaymentsMobile PaymentsBanking

Summary

Founders appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2012. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Copenhagen. The company was established in Europe in Denmark.

The top activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 49 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Founders is 100-500 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Founders, startups are often financed by Seedcamp, Creandum, Speedinvest. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Creandum, TriplePoint Capital, Stripes. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Creandum, Seedcamp, Kinnevik AB.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Denmark. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Payments. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pleo.

The fund was created by Joshua Karjala-Svendsen, Peter Heering, Sebastian Stockmarr, Simon Sylvest, Stefano Zorzi, Ulrik Trolle. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
44
Lead investments
9
Rounds per year
3.67
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Payments (17)
  • Financial Services (15)
  • FinTech (15)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Mobile Payments (12)
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Investments by region
  • Denmark (29)
  • Germany (9)
  • Italy (1)
  • United States (3)
  • Switzerland (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
233M
Group Appearance index
0.52
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Butter 01 Aug 2020 FinTech Seed 1M Hovedstaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
MICLEDI Microdisplays 09 Jan 2020 Semiconductor Seed 5M Belgium, Leuven, Flemish Brabant
Sibill 03 Jun 2024 Asset Management, Financial Services, FinTech Seed 7M Lombardia, Milano, Italy

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