Inventure

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Helsinki, Finland

Total investments

151

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

92

Rounds per year

7.95

Lead investments

29

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

12

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaS

Summary

Inventure appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Helsinki. The venture was found in Europe in Finland.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Finland. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bitbar, DrugStars, Abzu.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Inventure, startups are often financed by Tekes, Lifeline Ventures, First Fellow Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are First Fellow Partners, Lifeline Ventures, Tesi. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by First Fellow Partners, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Lifeline Ventures.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 34 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Inventure works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Inventure is 1-5 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Sami Lampinen, Timo Tirkkonen. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailDeep Tech Show 1 more
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
DenmarkEstoniaFinlandIcelandLatvia Show 3 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 150000000
Fund raised date
2022-10-03

Analytics

Total investments
151
Lead investments
29
Exits
12
Rounds per year
7.95
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (48)
  • Information Technology (22)
  • Mobile (20)
  • SaaS (20)
  • Artificial Intelligence (15)
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Investments by region
  • Finland (68)
  • Sweden (41)
  • Hungary (3)
  • Germany (3)
  • United Kingdom (8)
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Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.74

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Latest deals

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