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Graphene Ventures

Founders Alex Giannikoulis

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Total investments 43
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$51M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 4.78
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
  • Retail
Summary

In 2015 was created Graphene Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Transportation, Parenting. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Snap, Lyft, Zum Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Graphene Ventures, startups are often financed by Rakuten, Alibaba Group, Didi Chuxing. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rakuten, Vickers Venture Partners, SOSV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, M13, Khosla Ventures.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Graphene Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Graphene Ventures works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The current fund was established by Alex Giannikoulis, Nabil Borhanu. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Datalogz

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$5M14 Dec 2023 Queens, New York, United States

Start Careers

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$1M11 Dec 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

NERv Technology

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$15M10 Oct 2023 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Rocket.Chat

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$10M21 Sep 2023 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Rewaa | رواء

E-Commerce
Electronics
Information Technology
Marketplace
Software
Telecommunications
$27M28 Aug 2023 Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

Smartlens

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Personal Health
$6M11 Jul 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Bricksave

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$6M15 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

senhasegura

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$13M06 Dec 2022 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Contraline

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Pharmaceuticals
$7M10 Nov 2022 Virginia, United States
News
GOOD Meat, a Division of Eat Just, Inc., Raises $267 Million, Adds Former USDA Secretary to Advisory Board

– Eat Just, Inc. announced that its GOOD Meat division has secured $97 million in new funding.
– The overall $267 million fundraise is the largest to date in the burgeoning cultivated meat sector, which analysts predict could become a $25 billion global industry by 20301.
– New and previously announced investors include UBS O’Connor, a hedge fund manager within UBS Asset Management; Graphene Ventures; K3 Ventures; Resilience Reserve, a venture capital fund founded by entrepreneur Rob Reid and TED curator Chris Anderson; businessman Fernando Chico Pardo and others.
– GOOD Meat will use the funds to increase capacity and accelerate research and development for high-quality, real meat made directly from animal cells.
– ABG, LLC; BofA Securities, Inc.; Guggenheim Securities and VERSO Capital advised on the transaction.

GOOD Meat, a Division of Eat Just, Inc., Secures $170 Million to Scale Meat Without Slaughter as Demand Grows

– Eat Just, Inc. announced that its GOOD Meat division has secured $170m in new funding.
– With this transaction, GOOD Meat becomes a subsidiary of Eat Just, which announced a $200m fundraise in March.
– The latest investment from funds managed by UBS O’Connor, a hedge fund manager within UBS Asset Management, Graphene Ventures, K3 Ventures and others, will be used to increase capacity and accelerate research and development for high-quality, real meat without slaughter.

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Total investments 43
Average round size 51M
Rounds per year 4.78
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Datalogz

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Software
$5M14 Dec 2023 Queens, New York, United States

Start Careers

Education
Recruiting
Software
$1M11 Dec 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

NERv Technology

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
$15M10 Oct 2023 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Rocket.Chat

Apps
Communities
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Open Source
SaaS
Software
Video Chat
$10M21 Sep 2023 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Rewaa | رواء

E-Commerce
Electronics
Information Technology
Marketplace
Software
Telecommunications
$27M28 Aug 2023 Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

Smartlens

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Personal Health
$6M11 Jul 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Bricksave

Crowdfunding
Real Estate Investment
$6M15 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

senhasegura

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Security
Security
$13M06 Dec 2022 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Contraline

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Health Care
Medical Device
Pharmaceuticals
$7M10 Nov 2022 Virginia, United States
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