Helion Venture Partners

Location

Port Louis, Mauritius

Total investments

142

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

72

Rounds per year

8.35

Lead investments

36

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

29

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyMobileInformation ServicesAdvertisingShoppingLeisure

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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Analytics

Total investments
142
Lead investments
36
Exits
29
Rounds per year
8.35
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (34)
  • Internet (32)
  • Software (23)
  • Mobile (18)
  • Information Technology (18)
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Investments by region
  • India (96)
  • United States (44)
  • Singapore (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
105M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.48
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Babyoye 15 Apr 2011 E-Commerce, Internet, Shopping, Parenting, Child Care Seed 2M Maharashtra, Mumbai, India
OCUS 29 Jun 2018 Internet, Software, Marketing Early Stage Venture 0 Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Shubham Housing Development Finance Company 30 Nov 2012 Real Estate, Financial Services, Finance, Credit Early Stage Venture 8M Haryana, Gurugram, India

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