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Founders Future

Founders Marc Menase

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Total investments 96
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 70
Rounds per year 16.00
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 1
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Health Care
  • FinTech
Summary

Founders Future appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2018. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Founders Future, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz, Wilco. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Nicolas Douay, VARIV Capital, USM Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wilco, VARIV Capital, USM Holdings.

The current fund was established by Marc Mu00e9nasu00e9. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pinterest, comet, Bnext. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Health Care. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Spain. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from Founders Future the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Founders Future performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

900.care

Consumer Goods
Personal Health
$24M26 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

DazeTechnology

Electric Vehicle
Electronics
Manufacturing
$17M13 Feb 2024 Lombardia, Lombardy, Italy

Ezra AI

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$21M07 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

Welfaire

Health Insurance
Insurance
$3M30 Jan 2024 Issy-les-moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France

Campsider

$2M15 Jan 2024 -

Abyssale

Advertising
Developer APIs
Graphic Design
Marketing Automation
$1M25 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Mimbi

Advertising
Analytics
Business Intelligence
Retail Technology
Software
$1M14 Sep 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Astran

Cloud Data Services
Software
Web Development
$5M12 Jun 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Beev

E-Commerce
Electric Vehicle
Marketplace
SaaS
$3M15 May 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
News
Taster grabs $37 million for its native online restaurants

– Taster has raised a $37m Series B funding round.
– The round was led by Octopus Venture, Battery Ventures, Latitude (LocalGlobe), HeartCore, Rakuten, GFC and Founders Future.
– The company operates dozens of restaurants that only exist on food delivery platforms.
– You can’t book a table — there is no table.
– Taster has been focusing on five street food-inspired concepts so far — Bian Dang (Taiwanese food), A Burgers (plant-based burgers), Mission Saigon (Vietnamese food), Out Fry (Korean food) and Stacksando (Japanese street food).
– After that, Taster has opened dozens of kitchens across 40 different cities and listed its kitchens on food delivery platforms such as Deliveroo and Uber Eats.

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Total investments 96
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 16.00
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

900.care

Consumer Goods
Personal Health
$24M26 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

DazeTechnology

Electric Vehicle
Electronics
Manufacturing
$17M13 Feb 2024 Lombardia, Lombardy, Italy

Ezra AI

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$21M07 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

Welfaire

Health Insurance
Insurance
$3M30 Jan 2024 Issy-les-moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France

Campsider

$2M15 Jan 2024 -

Abyssale

Advertising
Developer APIs
Graphic Design
Marketing Automation
$1M25 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Mimbi

Advertising
Analytics
Business Intelligence
Retail Technology
Software
$1M14 Sep 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Astran

Cloud Data Services
Software
Web Development
$5M12 Jun 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Beev

E-Commerce
Electric Vehicle
Marketplace
SaaS
$3M15 May 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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