Hot DesQ

Total investments

39

Average round size

89K

Portfolio companies

39

Rounds per year

6.50

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise SoftwareBig DataMarketplaceVirtual RealityTravel

Summary

Hot DesQ appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2016.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Skin Analytics, TimeLooper, Much Better Adventures. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Travel, Software.

The average startup value when the investment from Hot DesQ is 1-5 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 50-100 thousands dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Hot DesQ, startups are often financed by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, 500 Startups, Wayra. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Start-Up Chile. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Triple Point Ventures, Transition Level Investments.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
0
Exits
2
Rounds per year
6.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Travel (5)
  • Virtual Reality (4)
  • Internet (4)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • Australia (16)
  • United States (8)
  • Canada (2)
  • Spain (2)
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Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
324K
Group Appearance index
0.05
Avg. company exit year
6

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