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Kistefos Venture Capital

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.85
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 2
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • FinTech
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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FinTech
Software
$6M22 Jan 2024 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Hemispherian

Biotechnology
Consulting
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$3M24 Nov 2022 Oslo, Norway

Semine

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Payments
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$3M15 Jul 2022 Oslo, Norway

bluesheets

FinTech
Software
$4M25 May 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

bluesheets

FinTech
Software
$1M13 Nov 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Surer

Auto Insurance
Commercial Insurance
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Property Insurance
$1M13 Oct 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

bluesheets

FinTech
Software
$1M13 Sep 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Semine

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Payments
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$5M01 Jul 2021 Oslo, Norway

Semine

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Payments
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$7M01 Jan 2021 Norway, Oslo

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Total investments 23
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.85
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

bluesheets

FinTech
Software
$6M22 Jan 2024 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Hemispherian

Biotechnology
Consulting
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$3M24 Nov 2022 Oslo, Norway

Semine

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Payments
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$3M15 Jul 2022 Oslo, Norway

bluesheets

FinTech
Software
$4M25 May 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

bluesheets

FinTech
Software
$1M13 Nov 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Surer

Auto Insurance
Commercial Insurance
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Property Insurance
$1M13 Oct 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

bluesheets

FinTech
Software
$1M13 Sep 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Semine

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Payments
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$5M01 Jul 2021 Oslo, Norway

Semine

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Payments
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$7M01 Jan 2021 Norway, Oslo
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