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Kibo Ventures

Founders Aquilino Pena Javier Torremocha

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Total investments 117
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 71
Rounds per year 9.75
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 14
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HyperSpectral

$8M05 Jun 2024 Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Mitiga Solutions

Information Technology
$9M04 Jun 2024 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Signalit

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Internet
$30M10 Apr 2024 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Green Eagle Solutions

$7M19 Dec 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Frenetic

Artificial Intelligence
Electrical Distribution
$13M07 Nov 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Trucksters

Logistics
Transportation
$38M12 Jun 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Signalit

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Internet
$13M01 Jun 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Mitiga Solutions

Information Technology
$15M18 May 2023 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

InnovaMat

E-Learning
$23M09 Mar 2023 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
News
Cloud security and analytics platform Devo raises $250M to bolster R&D efforts

– Devo Technology, a startup developing cloud logging and cybersecurity products, announced that it raised $250 million in a series E funding round valuing the company at $1.5 billion.
TCV led the investment along with General Atlantic, Eurazeo, Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Georgian, and Kibo Ventures, which brings Devo’s total funds raised to more than $400 million.
– CEO Marc van Zadelhoff says that the money will be put toward “aggressive growth” across new regions and verticals and “significantly increas[ing] investment” in channel expansion and product R&D.

Exoticca Closes $30M Series C Funding Round

– Exoticca from Barcelona is specialized in multi-day package tours.
– The company raised $30m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by 14W and Mangrove Capital Partners with participation from Aldea Ventures and existing investors such as Milano Investment Partners SGR, K Fund, Bonsai Partners, Kibo Ventures and Sabadell Venture Capital.
– The new investment will be used to invest in technology and product with the objective of further automating the booking process and enhancing the travelers’ experience.

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Total investments 117
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 9.75
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HyperSpectral

$8M05 Jun 2024 Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Mitiga Solutions

Information Technology
$9M04 Jun 2024 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Signalit

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Internet
$30M10 Apr 2024 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Green Eagle Solutions

$7M19 Dec 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Frenetic

Artificial Intelligence
Electrical Distribution
$13M07 Nov 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Trucksters

Logistics
Transportation
$38M12 Jun 2023 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Signalit

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Internet
$13M01 Jun 2023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Mitiga Solutions

Information Technology
$15M18 May 2023 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

InnovaMat

E-Learning
$23M09 Mar 2023 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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