IGNIA

Total investments

80

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

46

Rounds per year

4.71

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileFinanceMobile PaymentsBanking

Summary

In 2007 was created IGNIA, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in Mexico. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Lomas De Chapultepec.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the IGNIA, startups are often financed by Stella Maris Partners, InQlab, RRE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are InQlab, Elevar Equity, Stella Maris Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by InQlab, AI8 Ventures, Target Global.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Mexico. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Service Industry. 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 Credijusto, Barared, Kinedu.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from IGNIA is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this IGNIA works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund was created by Alvaro Rodru00edguez Arregui, Michael Chu. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
80
Lead investments
14
Exits
6
Rounds per year
4.71
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (34)
  • Financial Services (29)
  • Internet (23)
  • E-Commerce (17)
  • Mobile Payments (12)
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Investments by region
  • Mexico (43)
  • United States (20)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Brazil (3)
  • Argentina (3)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
256M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
9
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kontempo 04 Aug 2022 Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Seed 6M Distrito Federal, Mexico City, Mexico
Worky 14 May 2024 FinTech, Human Resources, SaaS Early Stage Venture 6M Mexico City, Mexico

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