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Helion Venture Partners

Founders Ashish Gupta

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Total investments 143
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 72
Rounds per year 7.94
Lead investments 37
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Exits 29
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
Summary

Helion Venture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The venture was found in Africa in Mauritius. The main department of described VC is located in the Port Louis Town.

Opposing the other organizations, this Helion Venture Partners works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Helion Venture Partners the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Mobile. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Shopclues, BigBasket, Ezetap. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Helion Venture Partners, startups are often financed by DFJ, Accel, Blume Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Blume Ventures, SAIF Partners, Norwest Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ, Accel.

The current fund was established by Ashish Gupta. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Slintel

Business Intelligence
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
Lead Generation
Marketing Automation
Sales Automation
$1M12 Dec 2019 Mountain View, California, United States

Whatfix

Customer Service
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Guides
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
Training
$13M12 Mar 2019 San Jose, California, United States

Toppr

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Knowledge Management
$35M19 Dec 2018 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

MoEngage

Analytics
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
Internet
Marketing Automation
Mobile
SaaS
$9M04 Dec 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Livspace

E-Commerce
Furniture
Home Furnishings
Interior Design
Internet Retail
$70M19 Sep 2018 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

RailYatri

Leisure
Mobile Apps
Tourism
$8M27 Apr 2018 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Workspot

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
Virtual Desktop
$15M15 Jan 2018 California, United States

Toppr

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Knowledge Management
$5M23 Oct 2017 Maharashtra

Computer
E-Commerce
Furniture
$9M05 Oct 2017 Karnataka

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Total investments 143
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 7.94
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 37
Follow on index 0.50
Exits 29
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Slintel

Business Intelligence
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
Lead Generation
Marketing Automation
Sales Automation
$1M12 Dec 2019 Mountain View, California, United States

Whatfix

Customer Service
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Guides
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
Training
$13M12 Mar 2019 San Jose, California, United States

Toppr

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Knowledge Management
$35M19 Dec 2018 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

MoEngage

Analytics
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
Internet
Marketing Automation
Mobile
SaaS
$9M04 Dec 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Livspace

E-Commerce
Furniture
Home Furnishings
Interior Design
Internet Retail
$70M19 Sep 2018 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

RailYatri

Leisure
Mobile Apps
Tourism
$8M27 Apr 2018 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Workspot

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
Virtual Desktop
$15M15 Jan 2018 California, United States

Toppr

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Knowledge Management
$5M23 Oct 2017 Maharashtra

Computer
E-Commerce
Furniture
$9M05 Oct 2017 Karnataka
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