Kibo Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Madrid, Spain

Total investments

117

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

71

Rounds per year

9.75

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

14

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSBig DataMarketplace

Summary

Kibo Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Madrid. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Spain.

This organization was formed by Aquilino Peu00f1a, Javier Torremocha. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical startup value when the investment from Kibo Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Kibo Ventures performs on 19 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Kibo Ventures, startups are often financed by Wayra, Alfonso Villanueva, Spark Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are JME Ventures, VitaminaK, Yago Arbeloa. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by JME Ventures, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Spark Capital.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Spain. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Devo, Jobandtalent, Minube. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Social Media, Artificial Intelligence.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistConsumer/RetailB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more
Check size
2M — 6M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 200000000
Fund raised date
2023-04-03

Analytics

Total investments
117
Lead investments
18
Exits
14
Rounds per year
9.75
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (32)
  • E-Commerce (20)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • SaaS (16)
  • Mobile (15)
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Investments by region
  • Spain (72)
  • United States (27)
  • Germany (3)
  • Mexico (1)
  • United Kingdom (5)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
98M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.98
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Jobandtalent 23 Jul 2013 Business/Productivity Software, Media and Information Services (B2B), Information Services (B2C), Marketplace, Employment, Staffing Agency Seed 2M Community of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Mitiga Solutions 04 Jun 2024 Information Technology Early Stage Venture 9M Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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