Helios Investment Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

40

Average round size

56M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

2.00

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
Financial ServicesFinTechPaymentsMobile PaymentsBankingTelecommunicationsEnergyRenewable EnergyOil and GasElectrical Distribution

Summary

In 2004 was created Helios Investment Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Helios Investment Partners performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Helios Investment Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Babatunde Soyoye, Fope Adelowo, Temitope Lawani. The overall number of key employees were 9.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Helios Investment Partners, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Helios Enterprises, Energy Access Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ff Venture Capital, WAVE Equity Partners, Vulcan Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Energy Access Ventures, responsAbility, ff Venture Capital.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Financial Services, Banking. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wananchi Group, Fawry, Africell Holding.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
13
Exits
7
Rounds per year
2.00
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (10)
  • Energy (9)
  • Oil and Gas (6)
  • Telecommunications (6)
  • Renewable Energy (6)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • Kenya (3)
  • Netherlands (5)
  • Lebanon (2)
  • Singapore (2)
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Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
118M
Group Appearance index
0.47
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
8.44
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Taptap Send 21 May 2020 Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments Early Stage Venture 13M England, London, United Kingdom

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