LeanSquare

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Liège, Belgium

Total investments

37

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

31

Rounds per year

3.70

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.16

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceAppsLifestyleMusicSocial MediaEnergy

Summary

LeanSquare appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Liu00e8ge. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Belgium.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Apps. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight DIM3, Bloomlife, Onoff Telecom. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Belgium.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the LeanSquare, startups are often financed by Fabien Pelous, Antoine Arnault, Alain Bernard. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Meusinvest, Spreds, OneRagtime. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Refiners, The Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders, Plug and Play.

The average startup value when the investment from LeanSquare is 1-5 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2016.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Media/ContentGaming/EsportsB2B/EnterpriseIoTBiotech/Life Sciences Show 2 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
37
Lead investments
10
Rounds per year
3.70
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Music (7)
  • Software (6)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Internet (5)
  • Artificial Intelligence (4)
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Investments by region
  • Belgium (25)
  • France (3)
  • United States (2)
  • The Netherlands (2)
  • Switzerland (1)
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Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.78

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
e-peas 02 Jul 2020 Semiconductor, Electronics, Energy, Sensor, Battery Early Stage Venture 9M Walloon Brabant, Belgium, Belgium
Preesale 01 Jul 2016 Internet, Events, Ticketing Seed 200K Liège, Liège, Belgium

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