Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD)

Total investments

11

Average round size

89M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.61

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

1

Areas of investment
E-CommerceFinanceFood and BeverageSecurityAgTechE-Commerce PlatformsGreenTechFood DeliveryAgricultureFarming

Summary

Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in United Arab Emirates. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Dubai.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Agriculture, Lifestyle. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Indigo Agriculture, Nanotronics Imaging, Numbrs The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), startups are often financed by Flagship Pioneering, Centralway Ventures, Alaska Permanent Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Saidler & Co., Ronald Cohen, OCCIDENT. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OCCIDENT, Marius Nacht, Flagship Pioneering.

Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2017.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
11
Lead investments
4
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.61
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Agriculture (4)
  • AgTech (4)
  • Food and Beverage (4)
  • E-Commerce (3)
  • Farming (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (5)
  • India (4)
  • Sweden (1)
  • Switzerland (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
855M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
10

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