Lean FUND
Venture Capital
Active
Mont Saint Guibert, Belgium
12
1M
11
1.33
9
0.08
1
- Areas of investment
Summary
Lean FUND is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The company was established in Europe in Belgium. The main department of described VC is located in the Louvain.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Belgium. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sortlist Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Apps, Subscription Service.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Lean FUND, startups are often financed by Seedcamp, NUMA. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Meusinvest, LeanSquare, BAN Vlaanderen. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rocket Internet, Piton Capital, DN Capital.
This organization was formed by Benoit Lips, Jean Dessain, Toon Vanagt. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 71 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Comparing to the other companies, this Lean FUND performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 28K — 112K
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 12
- Lead investments
- 9
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 1.33
- Follow on index
- 0.08
- Investments by industry
- Internet (4)
- Software (2)
- Food and Beverage (2)
- Messaging (2)
- Apps (2) Show 24 more
- Investments by region
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- Belgium (9)
- United States (2)
- France (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Group Appearance index
- 0.25
- Avg. company exit year
- 2
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldento | 16 Jan 2015 | Fitness | Seed | 383K | Liège, Liège, Belgium |
| Kin Community | 18 Sep 2014 | Internet, Content, Women's | Late Stage Venture | 12M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
| Quartzy | 02 Jul 2013 | E-Commerce, Enterprise Software | Early Stage Venture | 4M | United States, California, Hayward |
| Take Eat Easy | 25 Jul 2014 | Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Food Delivery | Seed | 413K | Belgium, Brussels-Capital |
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