Gulf Islamic Investments LLC (GII)

Total investments

12

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

1.20

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

1

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareConsumer GoodsInformation TechnologyFitnessHealth CareManufacturingMedicalLifestyleSensor

Summary

The company was established in Asia in United Arab Emirates. The main department of described VC is located in the Dubai.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Gulf Islamic Investments LLC (GII), startups are often financed by Salesforce Ventures, K1 Investment Management, ICONIQ Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wamda Capital, WSJ Joshua Fund, Tamer Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tech Invest Com, Salesforce Ventures, PremjiInvest.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mumzworld, Valencell, Apttus. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as CRM, Medical.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Gulf Islamic Investments LLC (GII) works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Gulf Islamic Investments LLC (GII) is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
1.20
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • Health Care (3)
  • Consumer Goods (3)
  • Software (2)
  • Information Technology (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (2)
  • India (7)
  • United Arab Emirates (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
12
Strategy success index
0.20

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