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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$38M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 0.29
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 7
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Health Diagnostics
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Therapeutics
Summary

KBC appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1935. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Brussels. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Belgium.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the KBC, startups are often financed by Gimv, Life Sciences Partners, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Gimv, Life Sciences Partners, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Life Sciences Partners, Gimv.

The top activity for fund was in 2009. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this KBC works on 12 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Fnality International, CitizenLab, Aristo Music Technology For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Belgium. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MICLEDI Microdisplays

Semiconductor
$25M12 Mar 2024 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Setle

$1M23 Aug 2022 Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium

Discai

Information Technology
Software
$14M02 Sep 2021 Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Stellar Labs

Corporate Training
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$2M22 Dec 2020 Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Wizata

Health Care
Manufacturing
$3M02 Jun 2020 Canton Capellen, Luxembourg

ArtiQ

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$1M15 Jul 2019 Belgium, Flemish Brabant

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$68M03 Jun 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Information Services
Information Technology
Loyalty Programs
$2M11 Aug 2017 Limburg

CitizenLab

Crowdsourcing
Government
Software
$590K18 Nov 2016 City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital

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Total investments 26
Average round size 38M
Rounds per year 0.29
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MICLEDI Microdisplays

Semiconductor
$25M12 Mar 2024 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Setle

$1M23 Aug 2022 Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium

Discai

Information Technology
Software
$14M02 Sep 2021 Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Stellar Labs

Corporate Training
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$2M22 Dec 2020 Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Wizata

Health Care
Manufacturing
$3M02 Jun 2020 Canton Capellen, Luxembourg

ArtiQ

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$1M15 Jul 2019 Belgium, Flemish Brabant

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$68M03 Jun 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Information Services
Information Technology
Loyalty Programs
$2M11 Aug 2017 Limburg

CitizenLab

Crowdsourcing
Government
Software
$590K18 Nov 2016 City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital
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