Kistefos Venture Capital

Total investments

24

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

0.89

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AccountingE-CommerceSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareRobotics

Summary

Kistefos Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1997. The venture was found in Europe in Norway. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Oslo.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Kistefos Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Andreas Ehn, Amicus Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tech Mahindra, SPRINGfondet, ING Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Associated Press, SPRINGfondet.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Blockchain, VoIP. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bambuser, TradeIX. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Sweden.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 51 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2008.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
5
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.89
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • SaaS (8)
  • FinTech (7)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Enterprise Software (6)
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Investments by region
  • Singapore (10)
  • Norway (9)
  • Ireland (1)
  • United States (2)
  • Sweden (2)
Peak activity year
2021

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
13

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Semine 01 Jul 2021 Accounting, Software, Information Technology, Payments, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Robotics Early Stage Venture 5M Oslo, Norway
ShieldIO, Inc. 01 Sep 2020 Analytics, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Security, CRM Seed United States, Nevada, Reno
Workclass 23 Dec 2022 Human Resources, Staffing Agency Seed 3M Central, Singapore, Singapore

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