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ING Group

Founders Adriana Venter

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Total investments 73
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$554M
Portfolio companies 61
Rounds per year 2.21
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 15
Key employees 31
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • FinTech
  • Renewable Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Telecommunications
Summary

In 1991 was created ING Group, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Amsterdam. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in The Netherlands.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from ING Group is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this ING Group performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the ING Group, startups are often financed by Thomvest Ventures, Investec, Inception Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BNP Paribas Private Equity, Societe Generale, Commerzbank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Aster, SmartFin Capital, International Finance Corporation.

The current fund was established by Adriana Venter. Besides them, we counted 30 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PayPal, Ascenty, Kabbage. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Lending, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$106M14 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Funkey

Event Management
Events
$1M23 Feb 2023 Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Zzoomm Full Fibre Broadband

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Internet of Things
ISP
Optical Communication
$137M01 Oct 2021 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Contour

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
17 Jun 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Consumer Lending
E-Commerce
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$30M02 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Twisto

FinTech
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
$21M14 Jan 2021 Prague, Prague, Czechia

Ascent

Compliance
Financial Services
FinTech
Legal
Legal Tech
$19M15 Oct 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$68M03 Jun 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Twisto

FinTech
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
$16M09 May 2019 Prague, Czechia

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Total investments 73
Average round size 554M
Rounds per year 2.21
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$106M14 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Funkey

Event Management
Events
$1M23 Feb 2023 Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Zzoomm Full Fibre Broadband

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Internet of Things
ISP
Optical Communication
$137M01 Oct 2021 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Contour

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
17 Jun 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Consumer Lending
E-Commerce
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$30M02 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Twisto

FinTech
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
$21M14 Jan 2021 Prague, Prague, Czechia

Ascent

Compliance
Financial Services
FinTech
Legal
Legal Tech
$19M15 Oct 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$68M03 Jun 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Twisto

FinTech
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
$16M09 May 2019 Prague, Czechia
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