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Lean FUND

Founders Benoit Lips Jean Dessain Toon Vanagt

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 1.33
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 1
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Software
  • Food and Beverage
  • Messaging
  • Apps
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sortlist

Advertising
Communications Infrastructure
Information Technology
Internet
Marketing
Peer to Peer
$12M15 Sep 2021 Belgium, Walloon Brabant, Belgium

Supersec

Natural Resources
Organic
$177K10 Jun 2016 Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Neveo

Internet
Messaging
Mobile
$118K09 Oct 2015 Belgium, Walloon Brabant

Sortlist

Advertising
Communications Infrastructure
Information Technology
Internet
Marketing
Peer to Peer
$649K09 Feb 2015 Belgium, Walloon Brabant, Belgium

Aldento

Fitness
$383K16 Jan 2015 Liège, Liège, Belgium

Koalect

Crowdfunding
Financial Services
Online Portals
$177K18 Nov 2014 Belgium, Walloon Brabant, Belgium

Krak

Apps
Hardware
Social Media
Software
Subscription Service
$70K04 Sep 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

CHEQROOM

Computer
Intellectual Property
Manufacturing
Software
$236K02 Sep 2014 East Flanders

Djump

Apps
Messaging
04 Aug 2014 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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Total investments 12
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.33
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.25

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sortlist

Advertising
Communications Infrastructure
Information Technology
Internet
Marketing
Peer to Peer
$12M15 Sep 2021 Belgium, Walloon Brabant, Belgium

Supersec

Natural Resources
Organic
$177K10 Jun 2016 Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Neveo

Internet
Messaging
Mobile
$118K09 Oct 2015 Belgium, Walloon Brabant

Sortlist

Advertising
Communications Infrastructure
Information Technology
Internet
Marketing
Peer to Peer
$649K09 Feb 2015 Belgium, Walloon Brabant, Belgium

Aldento

Fitness
$383K16 Jan 2015 Liège, Liège, Belgium

Koalect

Crowdfunding
Financial Services
Online Portals
$177K18 Nov 2014 Belgium, Walloon Brabant, Belgium

Krak

Apps
Hardware
Social Media
Software
Subscription Service
$70K04 Sep 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

CHEQROOM

Computer
Intellectual Property
Manufacturing
Software
$236K02 Sep 2014 East Flanders

Djump

Apps
Messaging
04 Aug 2014 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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