Kaszek Ventures

Total investments

229

Average round size

33M

Portfolio companies

120

Rounds per year

17.62

Lead investments

55

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

12

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareBankingMarketplace

Summary

In 2011 was created Kaszek Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Buenos Aires. The fund was located in South America if to be more exact in Brazil.

The fund was created by Hernan Kazah, Nicolas Szekasy. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Brazil. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Marketplace, Retail. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Nubank, Credijusto, GuiaBolso

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Kaszek Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Kaszek Ventures works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Kaszek Ventures, startups are often financed by monashees, Quona Capital, Google Launchpad Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tiger Global Management, Quona Capital, Global Founders Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, monashees, General Atlantic.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
229
Lead investments
55
Exits
12
Rounds per year
17.62
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (67)
  • FinTech (61)
  • E-Commerce (50)
  • Information Technology (49)
  • Software (34)
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Investments by region
  • Brazil (134)
  • Mexico (34)
  • Chile (11)
  • Colombia (14)
  • Ecuador (4)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
11
Number of Decacorns
12
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
533M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.09
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ebury 27 May 2015 Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Finance, Business Development, Financial Exchanges Late Stage Venture 0 England, London, United Kingdom
Kanastra 05 Jun 2024 Asset Management, Financial Services, Banking Early Stage Venture 20M
Cobre 01 Sep 2023 Financial Services Early Stage Venture 13M Valle del Cauca, Buenaventura, Colombia

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