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Growing Capital

Founders Gianni Matera

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$739K
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 2.50
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Key employees Soon
http://www.growing.capital
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Analytics
  • Machinery Manufacturing
  • Automotive
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2015 was created Growing Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Ireland. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Dublin.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the Growing Capital, startups are often financed by Enterprise Ireland, Plug and Play, Pascal Levy-Garboua. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are European Investment Fund, Enterprise Ireland, William Hockey. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ireland, Frontline Ventures, Elkstone.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Siren, Flipdish, Glofox. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Fitness, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Ireland. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

This organization was formed by Gianni Matera.

When the investment is from Growing Capital the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Smile Genius Limited

Dental
Health Care
Software
$236K09 Oct 2023
Growing Capital
Enterprise Ireland
 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

NanobOx

Machinery Manufacturing
$1M06 Oct 2023
The Yield Lab
Growing Capital
DeepIE Ventures Management Co.
 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Cerebreon Technologies

Analytics
Machinery Manufacturing
$2M01 Apr 2020
Delta Partners
Halo Business Angel Network
Western Development Commission
Growing Capital
Consilience Ventures
 Ireland, County Donegal

Geowox

FinTech
Real Estate
$590K24 Jun 2019
Enterprise Ireland
Growing Capital
 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Flipdish

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Mobile Apps
$2M13 Jul 2018
Growing Capital
Enterprise Ireland
Elkstone Capital Partners
 Sandyford, Dublin, Ireland

Popertee

Data Center
Database
Online Portals
$590K02 Jun 2017
Enterprise Ireland
Growing Capital
NDRC
 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Cerebreon Technologies

Analytics
Machinery Manufacturing
$118K22 May 2017
Growing Capital
 Ireland, County Donegal, Ireland

Yedup Limited

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
FinTech
Hedge Funds
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Real Time
$685K13 Apr 2017
Growing Capital
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Flipdish

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Mobile Apps
$590K26 Mar 2017
Growing Capital
Enterprise Ireland
 Sandyford, Dublin, Ireland
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Total investments 20
Average round size 739K
Rounds per year 2.50
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.15
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Smile Genius Limited

Dental
Health Care
Software
$236K09 Oct 2023
Growing Capital
Enterprise Ireland
 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

NanobOx

Machinery Manufacturing
$1M06 Oct 2023
The Yield Lab
Growing Capital
DeepIE Ventures Management Co.
 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Cerebreon Technologies

Analytics
Machinery Manufacturing
$2M01 Apr 2020
Delta Partners
Halo Business Angel Network
Western Development Commission
Growing Capital
Consilience Ventures
 Ireland, County Donegal

Geowox

FinTech
Real Estate
$590K24 Jun 2019
Enterprise Ireland
Growing Capital
 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Flipdish

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Mobile Apps
$2M13 Jul 2018
Growing Capital
Enterprise Ireland
Elkstone Capital Partners
 Sandyford, Dublin, Ireland

Popertee

Data Center
Database
Online Portals
$590K02 Jun 2017
Enterprise Ireland
Growing Capital
NDRC
 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Cerebreon Technologies

Analytics
Machinery Manufacturing
$118K22 May 2017
Growing Capital
 Ireland, County Donegal, Ireland

Yedup Limited

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
FinTech
Hedge Funds
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Real Time
$685K13 Apr 2017
Growing Capital
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Flipdish

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Mobile Apps
$590K26 Mar 2017
Growing Capital
Enterprise Ireland
 Sandyford, Dublin, Ireland
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