iMENA Group

Status

Active

Location

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Total investments

14

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

1.40

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceTransportationMobileAppsRestaurantsAdvertisingReservationsClassifiedsFood DeliveryRecreation

Summary

iMENA Group is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2012. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Dubai. The company was established in Asia in United Arab Emirates.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Easy Taxi, Telr, HelloFood. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Brazil. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Web Development. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the iMENA Group, startups are often financed by Rocket Internet, Swiss Founders Fund, Phenomen Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Silicon Badia, Rocket Internet, Mobily Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Savour Ventures, Rocket Internet, Phenomen Ventures.

The current fund was established by Adey Salamin, Khaldoon Tabaza.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this iMENA Group performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Geo focus
AlgeriaBahrainDjiboutiEgyptIraq Show 11 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
2
Exits
3
Rounds per year
1.40
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (3)
  • Recreation (3)
  • Restaurants (3)
  • Reservations (3)
  • Advertising (3)
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Investments by region
  • Jordan (3)
  • United Arab Emirates (7)
  • Germany (1)
  • United States (1)
  • Brazil (1)
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Peak activity year
2013

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
50M
Group Appearance index
0.29
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.59
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
OpenSooq 07 Jun 2021 Advertising, Classifieds Early Stage Venture 24M Amman, Amman, Jordan

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