Innovation Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Brussels, Belgium

Total investments

27

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

3.00

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareManufacturingMedicalLife ScienceInternet of ThingsService IndustryChemical

Summary

Innovation Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2007. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Elyria.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. This Innovation Fund works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by Qbic Fund, PMV, Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Theodorus III, Qbic Fund, PMV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by JumpStart Inc., PMV, Ohio Third Frontier.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Unific, SplashLink, Blue Foot Membranes. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical Device, Information Technology. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Belgium. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life Sciences
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
4
Exits
2
Rounds per year
3.00
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (7)
  • Chemical (5)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Service Industry (4)
  • Information Technology (4)
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Investments by region
  • Belgium (19)
  • Switzerland (2)
  • France (4)
  • Luxembourg (1)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
8

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bueno Company 25 Feb 2021 Retail, Apps, Grocery Seed Kyonggi-do, Dongan, South Korea
SENSE in 07 Jun 2022 Seed 1M Brittany, Bretagne, France
Univercells 16 Jul 2018 Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing Early Stage Venture 18M Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium

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