Helmet Capital

Total investments

3

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.12

Lead investments

1

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Energy StorageRetailConsumerHealth CareManufacturingFashionSemiconductorJewelryRFIDChild Care

Summary

Helmet Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1995. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Helsinki. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Finland.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cymbet. 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 fund investment industries, there are Consumer, Software. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the Helmet Capital, startups are often financed by The Dow Chemical Company, Millennium II Materials Technology Fund, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Texas Instruments, Perseus, Intel Capital.

The important activity for fund was in 2010. This Helmet Capital works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
3
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Child Care (1)
  • Health Care (1)
  • Consumer (1)
  • Fashion (1)
  • Retail (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (1)
  • Finland (2)
Peak activity year
2002

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
34
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
39

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cymbet 25 Jan 2010 Energy Storage, Manufacturing, Hardware, Semiconductor, RFID Late Stage Venture 31M United States, Minnesota

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