Investo

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

69

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

56

Rounds per year

4.93

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareAppsFood Delivery

Summary

Investo is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Mexico City. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Mexico.

The fund was created by Jonathan Lewy, Sergio Romo. The overall number of key employees were 6.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Rappi, Solugen, Grin Scooters Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Payments, Internet. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Investo, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, NXTP Labs, FundersClub. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Brad Flora, Liquid 2 Ventures, monashees. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FundersClub, Soma Capital, Notion.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Investo performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Investo is 5-10 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Check size
25K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
3
Exits
5
Rounds per year
4.93
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • Financial Services (10)
  • Software (10)
  • Internet (8)
  • Information Technology (8)
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Investments by region
  • Colombia (2)
  • Mexico (24)
  • United States (29)
  • Chile (4)
  • Portugal (1)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
88M
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Justo 10 Dec 2020 E-Commerce, Food Delivery Seed 2M Chile, Los Lagos Region, Chile
Unima 24 Mar 2019 Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics Seed 1M Jalisco, Zapopan, Mexico
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