imec.xpand
Venture Capital
Active
Heverlee, Belgium
32
21M
19
4.57
7
0.38
- Areas of investment
Summary
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the imec.xpand, startups are often financed by Mark Cuban, EvoNexus, Asimov Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are University of Leuven, Tech Coast Angels, Stanley Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Jazz Pharmaceuticals.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Pulsify Medical, MouSensor, Fabric8Labs Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Nanotechnology, Consumer Electronics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.
The high activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- EUR 300000000
- Fund raised date
- 2024-05-02
Analytics
- Total investments
- 32
- Lead investments
- 7
- Rounds per year
- 4.57
- Follow on index
- 0.38
- Investments by industry
- Medical Device (9)
- Manufacturing (8)
- Semiconductor (8)
- Medical (5)
- Artificial Intelligence (5) Show 22 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (13)
- Belgium (11)
- The Netherlands (3)
- Ireland (2)
- United Kingdom (1) Show 2 more
- Peak activity year
- 2023
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 4
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 4M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swave Photonics | 22 Jun 2023 | Augmented Reality, Semiconductor | Seed | 3M | Vlaams-Brabant, Leuven, Belgium |
| Wise Integration | 29 Feb 2024 | Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Energy Efficiency | Early Stage Venture | 17M | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France |
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